[syslog-ng] why i have to restart syslog to have the new apache log??

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 06:55 +0100, gatfi sami wrote:
> thank you
> another thing please
> i would like to ask you if it is possible to change the   TAG of sent
> message 
> for example
> give the  messages sent to a syslog server tag a value ( 0X11)
> and then in the server filter on this tag
> i am killing myself to tell my techer that the tag and priority flag
> are assigned automaticly by syslog and he insistes on the fact that we
> can change their value

it is not currently possible. you can rewrite all text based fields
(host, program, msg) but you can't do it with non-text fields like the
tag.

There was a related mail the other day, read the mailing list archives.

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Bazsi