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By default, rsyslog doesn’t sync data to log file immediately for performance reasons.
Ref to section Output File Syncing
Does that mean that there could be a scenario where if I am using iNotify on syslog files, I may miss an event?
So far, I am monitoring files using tail -f and it seems to be catching all the events. But I am paranoid that syslog caching may lead to inotify events being missed.
I went ahead and created this- http://code.google.com/p/logmon/ as per @cpugeniusmv suggestion