[syslog-ng]destination-feature

Jay Soffian jay@loudcloud.com
Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:49:29 -0800


 "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.