[syslog-ng] Facility / Priority

[Jeremy M. Guthrie]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 05:06, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 20:11 -0500, Jeremy M. Guthrie wrote:
> >         The issue I have found with Syslog-NG is that it does convert
> > the facility &
> > priority/severity to full names when writing.  Today I have Modular
> > Syslog
> > writing facility and severity as individual decimal values rather than
> > the
> > aggregate 0-255 decimal(see the table layout below).  I was wondering
> > if
> > someone knew of a way to get Syslog-NG to write out the
> > facility/priority
> > values separately?  .ie via the syslog-ng.conf filtering/manipulation
> > kung
> > fu?  Or does this look like a modification that I will have to make in
> > the .c
> > code?
>
> It depends on the template that you use, $FACILITY and $LEVEL writes it
> using names if possible, $TAG is a hexadecimal value for the
> facility/priority combined, and $PRI is the same in decimal.
>
> There's currently no macro for generating facility/priority separately
> in numeric form, it is not difficult to add though.
Yeah, this is where I am leaning.  I've got a pile of code I'd have to change 
otherwise.

> An alternative 
> solution would be to convert your tables to the 'enum' data type of
> mysql, which stores an integer internally, but accepts/shows the string
> representation.

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