[syslog-ng]syslog-ng and sqlsyslogd

[Nate Campi]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:14:41PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 2004-06-30, sze keltez?ssel 20:22-kor John Jason Brzozowski ezt ?rta:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I recently setup syslog-ng to use sqlsyslogd to insert syslog information
> > into a MySQL database.  After some testing I found that the some extra
> > data is being added to each record only when called by syslog-ng.  Each
> > record in the database has <###> where ### is some random number.  Has
> > anyone seen this?
> 
> it is not a random number, it is a combination of the facility and
> message priority bitmasks represented as a binary number.
> 
> you can rid of that by using templates.

Oh yeah, use templates, ignore my message about patching sqlsyslogd.
-- 
Nate

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