syslogd quesstion

[Nikhil]

But this is not the same on Solaris, as I do get them on a Solaris ' syslog
. Why this should not be the case with Linux as well ?

On 11/12/05, David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A. <d.tonhofer at m-plify.com> wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure that there is no way to set up the format without changing
> syslogd's
> code (which is probably not hard to do, BTW).
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> But if you want to know the 'facility' you can trivially log into
> different
> files depending on the facility. This is want I do. In /etc/syslogconf:
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> ----8<---------------------8<------------------------
> #
> # We do not need to synch the logs after each line, not even
> # the kernel log, which logs a lot of stuff about iptables. Sure,
> # we may los stuff if a crash occurs, but we gain speed.
> # -> Prepend '-' before the file. See man syslog.conf
> #
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> auth.* -/var/log/auth_log
> authpriv.* -/var/log/authpriv_log
> cron.* -/var/log/cron_log
> daemon.* -/var/log/daemon_log
> kern.* -/var/log/kern_log
> lpr.* -/var/log/lpr_log
> mail.* -/var/log/mail_log
> news.* -/var/log/news_log
> user.* -/var/log/user_log
> uucp.* -/var/log/uucp_log
> ftp.* -/var/log/ftp_log
> syslog.* -/var/log/syslog_log
> local0.* -/var/log/local0_log
> local1.* -/var/log/local1_log
> local2.* -/var/log/local2_log
> local3.* -/var/log/local3_log
> local4.* -/var/log/local4_log
> local5.* -/var/log/local5_log
> local6.* -/var/log/local6_log
> local7.* -/var/log/local7_log
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> --On Friday, November 11, 2005 11:07 PM +0530 Nikhil <
> mnikhil.juno at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello Friends
> >
> > I have a syslogd , sucessfully implemented with -r option in a network.
> > Currently all the messages that are being logged are in the below format
> >
> > <date> <machinename> <processname>[<pid>]: <message>
> >
> > Can I have some format where in the facility/priority is also mentioned
> so
> > that I can see under what facility and priority the messages are being
> > logged.
> > may be like this:
> > <date> <machinename> <facility.priority> <processname>[<pid>]: <message>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nikhil
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