This bug was fixed in the package rsyslog - 4.6.4-1ubuntu1

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rsyslog (4.6.4-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #671533), remaining changes:
    - Run as rsyslog:rsyslog, set $FileOwner to syslog
    - Replace init script with debian/rsyslog.upstart.
    - debian/control: Bump build-dependency on debhelper for Upstart-aware
      dh_installinit
    - debian/rsyslog.logrotate: Use reload command to restart rsyslog
    - debian/rsyslog.conf: enable $RepeatedMsgReduction
      to avoid bloating the syslog file (LP #453444)
    - Add debian/rsyslog.dmesg.upstart to save initial dmesg into a file.
      Install it in debian/rules.
    - debian/50-default.conf: set of default rules for syslog (forwarded to
      Debian #603160)
  * Dropped changes:
    - debian/patches/deroot.patch: this patch was introduced to support
      earlier kernels and we don't support running natty on pre-karmic
      kernels
    - sysklogd → rsyslog upgrade was done pre-lucid (LTS) so drop all
      the upgrade handling
    - Restore to reading from /proc/kmsg: rsyslog can read directly from
      /proc/kmsg now; dropped init script changes as they're obsolete
      (even when actually using the init script which we don't, we have
      the upstart script)

rsyslog (4.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - bugfix: programname filter in ! configuration can not be reset.
      Thanks to Kiss Gabor for the patch. Closes: #540807
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1. No further changes.

rsyslog (4.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/patches/02-set-correct-default-for-buffered-writing.patch
    - Removed, merged upstream.
  * Switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
    - Add debian/source/format.
    - Drop Build-Depends on quilt.
    - Remove debian/README.source.
    - Remove /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make include from debian/rules.
  * Switch to dh v7.
    - Bump Build-Depends on debhelper to (>= 7.0.50).
    - Bump Build-Depends on autotools-dev to (>= 20100122.1) for the
      autotools_dev dh addon.
    - Convert debian/rules to dh.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.0. Use Breaks instead of Conflicts as
    recommended by the new policy.

rsyslog (4.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/patches/02-set-correct-default-for-buffered-writing.patch
    - The default for $OMFileFlushOnTXEnd was wrong ("off"). Patch pulled from
      upstream Git.

rsyslog (4.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix error in rsyslog.conf(5) man page. The configuration variable
      $InputUDPServerRun does not exist, it should be $UDPServerRun instead.
      Thanks to Alexander Gerasiov for spotting this. Closes: #571202
  * debian/rsyslog-doc.install
    - Install png image files.
  * debian/patches/doc_typo_fix.patch
    - Removed, merged upstream.
  * debian/patches/no_create_db.patch
    - Refresh to apply cleanly.
  * debian/control
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4. No further changes.
  * debian/rsyslog.install
    - Install new lmstrmsrv.so and lmzlibw.so plugins.
  * debian/rsyslog.lintian-overrides
    - Add lintian override for init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs
      false positive. See also the corresponding lintian bug: #571280.
  * debian/rules
    - Add call to dh_lintian.
  * debian/rsyslog.init
    - GNU/kFreeBSD does not allow to create pipes in /dev. So for xconsole
      create the pipe as /var/run/xconsole and a /dev/xconsole symlink.
      Closes: #537170

rsyslog (4.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control
    - Demote mysql-server and postgresql from Recommends to Suggests. The
      server packages are not strictly necessary for dbconfig-common's
      autoconfiguration to work and one might want to use a remote server.
    - Add Recommends: mysql-client for rsyslog-mysql.
    - Add Recommends: postgresql-client for rsyslog-pgsql.
  * debian/patches/doc_typo_fix.patch
    - Fix a typo in the html documentation and man page regarding the syslog.h
      header file and the syslog(3) man page. Closes: #559334
      Thanks to Alexander Gerasiov for spotting this.

rsyslog (4.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.

rsyslog (4.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix invalid double-quoted PRI in log messages. Closes: #543505
  * debian/watch
    - Only check for stable upstream releases.
  * debian/patches/testbench-java.patch
    - Removed, merged upstream.

rsyslog (4.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Removed patches
    - debian/patches/manpage_pidfile.patch (merged upstream)
    - debian/patches/close-stdout-stderr.patch (merged upstream)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No further changes.
  * Disable testbench as it requires java.
  * debian/patches/testbench-java.patch
    - Move check_JAVA inside the ENABLE_TESTBENCH section so the tests are not
      run unless the testbench is enabled.
 -- Lorenzo De Liso <email address hidden>   Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:52:21 +0100