Colleagues,

When testing NetCool or other monitoring triggers it is very handy

to be able to test things with "logger". However logger doesn't have

the ability to test all of the things that syslog-ng can do.

I don't know that much about the network protocol for syslog,

or the system library calls in the various OS's that support local syslog

delivery. However the standard "logger" command has the following

limitations:

1. I can't specify the DESTINATION other than the

default local system (e.g. @somehost(tcp#|udp#) )

without changing my local syslog configuration.

2. I can't spoof the source IP address or source Hostname.

3. I can't spoof the source messages time-stamp.

Could I ask (pretty please) that the kind and generous gods of syslog

programming make a little tiny version of syslog-ng called logger-ng

that can accept command line arguments like the standard logger

command does (with the addition of the above two options)?

I would be willing to trade some work doing documentation of it

and making man pages in exchange? I am a very good writer.

-Ben.