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<div>I have seen this before but it was a few years back and it was only one application using it for an instance name something like a database cluster name which made it always the same for the life of the install. That didn't make it very useful. </div>
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<div>I haven't seen this in at least 4 years and if the "other guys" are moving in this direction and because it already is a defacto standard to use it for the PID then I am happy with that. </div>
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From: Balazs Scheidler <br>
Date:12/12/2013 12:36 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <br>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] [RFC]: syslog-ng and UNIX credentials <br>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for the response.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Well, thats right. I was thinking on having this enabled only on /dev/log automatically via the system driver. But even there could be disabled by using the lower level drivers directly.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I havent seen anything that would use that field for something else. Did you?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, journal/rsyslog is doing the same.</p>
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<div>If the PID is replaced by this new feature then the PID included in the message would be lost and according to the syslog RFC the item in [] is a unique identifier and NOT always a PID. I think that the PID included in the message should be retained, perhaps
in another macro such as EPID for effective PID or something that matches the RFC description.</div>
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From: Gergely Nagy <br>
Date:12/10/2013 9:16 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: syslog-ng OSE list <br>
Subject: [syslog-ng] [RFC]: syslog-ng and UNIX credentials <br>
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<div>Hi!<br>
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We had a short chat with Bazsi earlier today, and he's working on a<br>
feature that will allow syslog-ng to pick out UNIX credentials passed<br>
through unix sockets (such as /dev/log). This means that we receive the<br>
PID, the UID and the GID of the sending program, and can opt to store it<br>
someplace. So far, syslog-ng was not doing that, but with the new<br>
feature, it becomes possible to store these.<br>
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The idea at the moment is, is to have a flag for unix-* sources that<br>
enables collecting these credentials. If turned off (the default, unless<br>
using system(), which would turn it on for /dev/log), nothing changes.<br>
If turned on, it would replace the $PID sent over the socket with the<br>
one extracted from credentials. It would also add the "${.unix.GID}" and<br>
"${.unix.UID}" properties to the log message, along with "${.unix.EXE}"<br>
on platforms that support looking up the executable (Linux, for now).<br>
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We'd like to invite the broader community to share your feelings about<br>
this feature, the naming of the properties and how You would like it to<br>
work, if you're interested in making use of this functionality.<br>
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