-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2012-09-16 at 14:41 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'm waiting to have a bunch of at least a hundred emails to fetch before running fetchmail again and see.
I did, and it worked... rsyslog did not complain this time. With this setting:
$SystemLogRateLimitInterval 5 $SystemLogRateLimitBurst 2000
There is an update of rsyslog to version 5.10.0 that addresses precissely this issue: +++··············· openSUSE-2012-648 - rsyslog: Updated to 5.10.0 This update fixes the following issues for rsyslog: - Updated to 5.10.0 [V5-stable] (bnc#753077, bnc#778769), the actual rsyslog v5-stable series, incorporating all fixes the 5.8.x [EOL V5-stable] and changes from 5.9.x series. It turns off rate limiting on unix socket by default (caused problems) ···············++- - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBjbPsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W2DQCfXK2E6zhB8jEvC/fIMs9phyYv +5UAn0gp2S3d2AtCe+5Fv8+EFDfsuuot =4wrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----