[syslog-ng]Sending mail to root?

[Florian Lindner]

Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 00:30 schrieb nate:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:20:43AM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 00:02 schrieb Amodiovalerio Verde:
> > > I use some C program I've written to read stdin using a fgets() that
> > > return after # bytes or after an EOL.
> >
> > Could you send this program to me? Wouldn't it be better to return after
> > a linebreak?
>
> No need for custom C programs:
>
>  http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#external_program
>
> or for shell use this:
>
>  #!/bin/sh
>  while read line; do
>      echo $line | /usr/bin/mail -s "log alert" pager@example.dom
>  done

Thanks, it works so far.
I get Email like that:

<17>Aug 19 14:31:43 s_sys@bastet root: foo!

What dies the <17> means?

(The message was generated by logger with mail.alert)

Thanks,
Florian