SYSLOG-BULK-UPLOADER(1)
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Marko Živanović <marko@zivanovic.in.rs>

NAME
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syslog-bulk-uploader - utility to send syslog records from file to remote syslog server

SYNOPSIS
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syslog-bulk-uploader [option]... [file]...

DESCRIPTION
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syslog-bulk-uploader is non-interactive utility designed to read syslog records from one or more files and send them
to remote syslog server. The format of syslog records in input files is:

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<timestamp> <facility.severity> <source> <message>
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Field separator is one or more space (ASCII 32) or tab (ASCII 9) characters. All whitespace characters in the _message_
field will be interpreted as part of the message, not as separators.

Fields of the record are:

*timestamp*:: in format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
*facility*:: one of: kern,user,mail,daemon,auth,syslog,lpr,news,uucp,clock,authpriv,ftp,ntp,logaudit,logalert,cron,local0,local1,local2,local3,local4,local5,local6,local7
*severity*:: one of: emergency,alert,critical,error,warning,notice,informational,debug
*source*:: IP address or host name of message source
*message*:: the text of the message itself

OPTIONS
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*-h --help*:: display help message, then exit
*v --version*:: display version information, then exit
*-m --mps* num:: send messages at specified rate per second; default, if not specified, is 1000
*-d --dest* dest:: destination host name
*-p --port* arg:: destination port; default, if not specified, is 514
*[-f --files]* filename:: one or more input files; option name (-f or --file) is optional, i.e. all non-named arguments will be interpreted as filenames

SEE ALSO
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Project home page with source code, documentation, etc is at https://github.com/zmarko/syslog-bulk-uploader.

BUGS
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The up-to-date list of current and historical issues is located at https://github.com/zmarko/syslog-bulk-uploader/issues.

COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2015 Marko Živanović.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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SOFTWARE.

