[Bug 136141] syntax errors in syslogd.conf cause lost log messages without warning

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--- Comment #30 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>  2009-06-14 12:42:03 EDT ---
What else can I do to avoid that we don't talk past eachother, please?

> rsyslog does not discard selectors silently. First of all, it logs them, 

It does _not_ log them. At least not in the example I offer in this ticket.
Yes, it's bad luck that an entire rule gets disabled, see comment 14, please.

> It does not make sense to include a facility to output
> to stderr if nobody will ever see stderr.

What sort of messages do you refer to?

If I log in to a machine and run "sudo /sbin/service rsyslog restart", why
would I not see warnings/errors printed to stderr?

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