[syslog-ng] rfc3195 support

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Oct 13 15:34:52 CEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 19:18 +0200, Linus Grybäck wrote:
> I was wondering if syslog-ng had support for sending messages
> according to the rfc3195 standard? I have not found any mention of it
> in the documentation. I noticed that syslog-ng can send BSD style
> messages with TCP. From what I understood from the rfc3195
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3195.txt) it specifies a way to do just
> that. So I was wondering if syslog-ng uses this form when it sends BSD
> style messages over TCP? If it have support for it at all, or not?
> 
> 
> With BSD style messages I mean messages following the rfc3164, also
> called legacy-syslog in the documentation.
> // Thanks for your help, Linus

syslog-ng doesn't support RFC3195, rather it supports the new set of
standards RFC5424 and friends (RFC5425 and RFC5426 in particular).

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Bazsi




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