[systemd-devel] systemd-logger and external syslog daemon

[Rainer Gerhards]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrey Borzenkov [mailto:arvidjaar at mail.ru]
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: Rainer Gerhards
> Cc: Michael Biebl; Mike Kazantsev; systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-logger and external syslog daemon


> Actually looking at kernel printk implementation, it is pretty robust
> and will just pass unknown severity through. Which means that
> prefixing them with e.g. <s> will mark lines as belonging to systemd
> and allow further filtering and post-processing.

This sounds like a good solution to me. I  could easily parse that off and
know what's going on. Along these lines, we may include a timestamp for those
messages as well (or rely on the overall printk setting, which sounds a bit
more natural to me...).

I am not a kernel hacker, so I may need to get some help setting up a test
environment for this to try out...

Rainer