[syslog-ng] Re: Logging to program destinations has odd prefix?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:08 -0700, John Caruso wrote:
> On Thursday 02:45 AM 7/13/2006, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> >Let me stress that _this is not a bug_, it is working as intended. Newer
> >versions can specify a template for programs, which can be used to omit
> >the priority value.
> 
> Ok, thanks.  The preceding exchange didn't indicate that; in fact I was 
> assuming it was intentional until I saw you saying that it was fixed in a 
> recent version.  I couldn't find anything about this in the 1.6 (or even 
> 2.0) documentation either (searching for "program", "prefix", "<", etc), 
> and the only mailing list postings I found about it were these two that 
> implied it was a bug.  Was I missing something obvious, or is this just 
> undocumented behavior?
> 
> I'd think that as the default it would make more sense to generate 
> messages just as they would have been generated with a file() destination 
> and to require users who actually want the priority prefix (or any other 
> special handling) to use a template to get it, rather than requiring it to 
> be stripped out by default.

And what happens to those users who are using the current format in
their scripts?

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Bazsi