I was banging my head against the below error all morning, only to discover that the official #Debian rsyslog-kafka package isn't built correctly.

errmsg.c: Called LogMsg, msg: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.conf, on or before line 23: MODNAME is an optional module which could not be built on your platform please remove it from the configuration or upgrade your platform

#rsyslog #rsyslogd #kafka #linux