"Balazs" == Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> writes: >> relating to my last question about SQL-output another idea: >> >> the destination-function should have an printf-like option so you can >> format the output the way you like it; specially for the >> programm-destination it would be nice to have separators for the >> different fields to let the program handle and process these during >> runtime with each message. Balazs> syslog-ng ensures the format of output messages (unlike Balazs> client syslogds which sometimes omit hostnames, date Balazs> fields and such) How do you reliably determine the incoming fields? AFAIK, there is no RFC nor standard for syslog - it is ad hoc. BTW - thanks for the excellent program. j.