[syslog-ng]replacing part of prog name with hostname

[Nate Campi]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:48:51AM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> The solution is to fix the sender program, no better workaround exists in
> syslog-ng.

I tried that. I spent months trying to explain it to their developers. I
almost got one of them to understand, at which point he said they don't
really care.

*Sigh*, we've paid hundreds of thousand of dollars to them too. I gave
up and wrote my own syslog relay daemon to rewrite the messages as I
needed.

> Nate, the problem does not apply to local messages only, it happens to cases
> when Solaris sends these messages via UDP. It is not a solution to simply
> assume that there is no hostname for local messages

I know that it applies to both locally-read messages and ones read from
over the network. What I want is for syslog-ng to know that when it's
reading from /dev/log or /etc/.syslog_door on solaris to *then* do the
behavior I'm speaking of. Over the network it can never know what the
remote OS is, but when reading from the socket it certainly knows.
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