On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:08 -0700, John Caruso wrote:
On Thursday 02:45 AM 7/13/2006, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
Let me stress that _this is not a bug_, it is working as intended. Newer versions can specify a template for programs, which can be used to omit the priority value.
Ok, thanks. The preceding exchange didn't indicate that; in fact I was assuming it was intentional until I saw you saying that it was fixed in a recent version. I couldn't find anything about this in the 1.6 (or even 2.0) documentation either (searching for "program", "prefix", "<", etc), and the only mailing list postings I found about it were these two that implied it was a bug. Was I missing something obvious, or is this just undocumented behavior?
I'd think that as the default it would make more sense to generate messages just as they would have been generated with a file() destination and to require users who actually want the priority prefix (or any other special handling) to use a template to get it, rather than requiring it to be stripped out by default.
And what happens to those users who are using the current format in their scripts? -- Bazsi