Hi,

The easiest way to drop the timestamp is on the syslog-ng server side, where you write the message into a file. There you can use a template, something like the one below. But why do you want to send a message without a timestamp?

destination d_file {
    file ("/var/log/messages" template("${MSG}\n") );
};

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Csuti Istvan <icsuti@zalaszam.hu> wrote:

Hi All!

I would like send UDP message to the syslog server without timestamp.

I readed RFC3164 and RFC5424 and syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin.pdf.

The new "RFC 5424 (also called the IETF-syslog protocol): see Section 2.8.2,
IETF-syslog messages (p. 13)" support NIL values "-" in HEADER.

I sended this "<110>1 - hostname procname procid - - Message"

The syslog-ng server logged this:

"Sep 21 19:29:54 h164-19 1: - hostname procname procid - - Message"

Question:
What is wrong in my message string?
The syslog-ng server why do not decode "1" after ">" as version?
Can i send old syslog message (RFC3164) without timestamp?

Best Regards
Istvan Csuti

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