[syslog-ng]Log formatting

[Nate Campi]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:10:03PM -0400, Robert.COward@deploymenthealth.osd.mil wrote:
> Why is it that syslog-ng places the program name in the message string? As
> in:
 
 <snip>
 
> I'd like to see just the words "this is a test" in the $MSG variable.
> I am using syslog-ng version 1.5.24, on OpenBSD 3.5.

I think it's because the program name isn't required and often isn't
there. If it's always chopped then you'll lose valuable information much
of the time from the actual message.
-- 
Nate

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