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

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 11:48 -0700, John Caruso wrote:
> On Saturday 08:53 AM 7/15/2006, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> >2) changing the way it currently works would break systems that already
> >rely on this behaviour. I don't want to break their systems.
> 
> Sure.  I was just offering an opinion, but keeping legacy behavior makes 
> sense.
> 
> I'd suggest that it would be good to document this behavior of program() 
> destinations prominently in the reference manual, though.  The current 
> documentation not only doesn't mention it (that I can see), but even 
> implies that the <X> is *not* coming from syslog-ng; e.g. in the 1.6 docs 
> for the template() option of program() it says that the default is "a 
> format conforming to the default logfile format," but the default logfile 
> format doesn't include the <X>.  That's exactly why I initially thought it 
> might be a bug in my Perl script....

Agreed, I've added the following change to the documentation:

--- orig/doc/reference/syslog-ng.xml
+++ mod/doc/reference/syslog-ng.xml
@@ -1865,7 +1865,9 @@

        <para>
          The program destination supports all common destination options
-          and has no specific options.
+          and has no specific options. The default format matches the BSD
+          syslog protocol, e.g. it includes the priority value in addition
+          to the format used in logfiles.
        </para>

        <example>





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Bazsi