Information about disk-buffer files

This section describes information about disk-buffer files used in syslog-ng OSE.

The following list contains information about how disk-buffer files are used in syslog-ng OSE:

• You can configure disk-buffer() for a remote destination in the destination() statement.

  For more information about an example of configuring disk-buffer() for a remote destination in the destination() statement, see disk-buffer().

• By default, syslog-ng OSE creates disk-buffer files under /opt/syslog-ng/var directory, unless dir() option is set in disk-buffer().

• The filenames are generated automatically by syslog-ng OSE with the extensions .qf for a normal disk-buffer and .rqf for a reliable disk-buffer.

• The disk-buffer file stores processed log messages in the format in which they would have been sent out to the destination, but doesn't store information about the destination.