[syslog-ng] Named Log Entries in the Config File

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri Jan 6 16:25:56 CET 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:05 -0500, Kenneth Kassing wrote:
> Sandor Geller wrote:
> > Kenneth Kassing wrote:

> That is an approach I had not thought of.  However, I like the name 
> field in the log option as it remains parallel with the existing config 
> log.  This could conceivably be adopted and used by syslog-ng itself in 
> the future.
> 
> Additionally, I am using a grammar parser written in python to read in 
> the config file.  Currently it is configured to ignore all the comments. 
>   Adding a special comment to the grammar would significantly complicate 
> the logic I am using.

This time I agree with Sandor, as long as this name is not needed by
syslog-ng itself I'm reluctant to include it in the grammar.

-- 
Bazsi



More information about the syslog-ng mailing list