[syslog-ng]Sending mail to root?

[Amodiovalerio Verde]

That's the priority code ie the combination as defined by RFC3164 of
severity and facility...

Every facility and severity have a numeric value starting from 0.

The priority code is calculated as : Facility * 8 + Severity...

So 17 is Facility = 2 (mail) and Severity = 1 (alert)

You can look here for all codes : http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html


Amodiovalerio Verde


----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Lindner" <mailinglists@xgm.de>
To: <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Sending mail to root?


> 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
>