Re: [logs] Syslog payload format

From: Jeff Schaller (schallerat_private)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 10:36:08 PST

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    On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Darren Reed wrote:
    
    > It occurred to me whilst out walking that there's a fundamental
    > problem here with us saying what we *want* to log and that is we
    > have almost NO control over what gets logged.  We can influence
    > the how it gets logged by plugging in a different API for
    > syslog(3) and providing a new one but I don't see it being
    > easily within reach for influencing application programmers.
    
    Or is this a situation where there's two separate activities:
    1) fixing syslog
    2) fixing the applications
    
    where (2) can start with patches (to open-source software, anyway)
    that add simple syslog() calls with the information we're
    interested in. Once (1) is done, it's just a matter of tweaking
    the existing syslog calls.
    
    -jeff
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