[syslog-ng]No indication of facility/level on AIX 4.3.3 using syslog-ng 1.4. 14

[Nate Campi]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:15:24PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:08:59PM -0400, Gehring, Andrew     x66132 wrote:
> > > > Is there something special I need to define or configure to have
> > > > syslog-ng on AIX (4.3.3) write the facility/severity as part of the
> > > > messages?
> > > > 
> > > > On solaris we saw [facility/severity] written with each messages, but
> > > > we don't get this on AIX...
> > > > 
> > > > Did I miss something while configuring/compiling?
> 
> This can be solved by the template options:
> 
> destination d_file { file("/var/log/messages" template("$DATE $HOST [$FACILITY:$LEVEL] $MSG\n"); };

Bazsi,

The $HOST macro comes from parsing the message, right? It would be nice
to have a macro that came directly from gethostbyaddr, to get consistent
naming, and to make sure that badly formatted TAG sections (spaces in
them) aren't mistaken as the hostname.
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