[syslog-ng] [Bug 16] program destination driver no longer sends TAG to STDIN in 2.0.6

[bugzilla at bugzilla.balabit.com]

https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16


Dylan Vanderhoof <llarian at llarian.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED




--- Comment #2 from Dylan Vanderhoof <llarian at llarian.net>  2008-01-16 08:56:50 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> true enough, this might have changed in 2.0.x, although not intentionally.
> I'm not sure thought that I want to change this so late in the syslog-ng 2.0.x development state, 
> as other might already have got used to the new behaviour and I don't want to break their 
> production system.
> You can get back the old behaviour by specifying a template explicitly:
> destination d_prog { program("/bin/script" template("<$PRI>$DATE $HOST $MSG\n"); };
> So, I'm closing this ticket as WONTFIX, please reopen if you disagree.

Then this is a documentation bug.  The reference manual included with syslog-ng 2.0 has the following in section 2.6:

"The default message format that is sent to the program matches the BSD syslog protocol, e.g. it includes the priority value in addition to the format used in
logfiles."