[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng/Rsyslog "message" differences (?)

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri Jan 14 12:31:58 CET 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:22 -0500, Champ Clark III [Softwink] wrote:
> > On second read, $MSG's behaviour seems to be dependent upon what version
> > of syslog-ng you're using. According to the documentation, syslog-ng
> > prior to 3.0 had the program name and the pid in $MSG, in 3.0 and past
> > that, $MSG is synonymous to $MSGONLY.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether <3.0 contains $MSGONLY, but if they do, then all is
> > well, and one can use the same macro for all versions.
> 
> 	Hopefully $MSGONLY is backward compatible with in < 3.0.  I'll
> have to test that.  I'll also make a notation in the documentation about
> this as well. Thanks for the input.

yes, MSGONLY has been present  in syslog-ng for a while, definitely
introduced earlier than 3.0.

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Bazsi




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