[syslog-ng]Locals in Syslog.

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:45:42AM +0100, Jon Hofstad wrote:
> Hello.
>  
> I`m working on a project where I need to set up a syslog-environment. I have
> about 140 servers that needs to send their syslog-info to a centralized
> syslog-ng server.
> My challenge is that I need to identify each server with their own
> local-value. Default, syslog has a limitation in how many locals you can
> define, isn`t it 8?
> Has anyone had experience with changing this value to whatever number; e.g
> 100?

short answer: don't do it

longer answer:

the syslog facility mechanism is quite limited, and is not easy to do what
you want. you should use message pattern matching instead, for example the
host() filter.

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