Deoren Moor

@rgerhards What version (or series) of rsyslog was the last to add obsolete legacy format directives? I'm working on the tables and am adding misc "TODO" entries to trigger build...

> @davidelang: It should be safe to assume that v6 was the cutover (not perfectly accurate, but that was long enough go that it's not worth getting more precise) Thanks,...

related issue: #449

Note to self: grep rsyslog source for `eCmdHdlrGoneAway` as one way of helping to identify obsolete legacy directives that are no longer supported.

Some notes from https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog-doc/issues/453#issuecomment-353718716: > @rgerhards: I still think we should remove all obsolete format references and just put them into a single old-to-new mapping page. So it'll be removed...

> @rgerhards: yup - that definitely works (assuming I have all done cleanly... ;)). Awesome, I was hoping that would be a good indicator to work from.

Update: The work on PR #476 may resolve this in a slightly different way: mention the [`obsolete legacy`](http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/conf_formats.html) format directives in a small table right with the coverage for the...

Do you happen to have a page in mind that could serve as a valid reference for updating the other pages? The recent work to refresh the module docs is...

@davidelang I can definitely see adding a 'max' column for the integer types. I see for the `Format` parameter that some of the options have been listed in that section:...

> @davidelang: re: enum types (like format) > > the section mentions several possible values (but not all of them) and gives no > real information about what each of...