Hi, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
Tom <tommedema@gmail.com> writes:
Dear all,
I just started using syslog-ng to pipe log files to Loggly.com.
I have a couple of questions.
First of all, why is there a `: ` after kernel here?
I do not know why there is a ': ' - my reading of the program_override() docs (see the admin guide link below) suggests that it should be 'kernel' alone.
It's a relic from the syslog-ng 2.x era... log_prefix("kernel: ") was needed to have the same messages logged as klogd/syslogd used to write, however log_prefix() left the header untouched so was a partial solution. People replacing log_prefix with program_override should be aware that the trailing doublecolon/ space should get removed from the configs. hth, Sandor