[syslog-ng] facility 10 plus?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 22 March 2010 18:55:59 Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 08:50 -0500, fedora fedora wrote:
> > Hi, I have some odd devices using syslog facility 24, and there is no
> > way I can change it!
> > 
> > In this case, is it possible letting syslog-ng use facility 24? right
> > now it gives me, 24 is not supported error and quits.
> 
> It should be possible to reference facility 24 this way:
> 
> filter f_fac24 { facility(24); };
> 
> If you specify a facility by number, it is not possible to use a range,
> but otherwise it should work. Does it for you?

Baszi,

How high can one take these undefined facilities? 

I've always found it incredibly annoying that the standard facilities are so 
limited, that apart from local0-7 there's no way to extend them, and that the 
latest standards didn't define any new ones.


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