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

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:01:46 +0100
Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 11.03.11 08:49, Mike Kazantsev (mk.fraggod at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm, that is borked. We do provider proper error levels when we write
> > > things to kmsg. This must get lost later on. But we do strip the
> > > facility, so that it gets replaced by "kernel", that is true.
> > > 
> > > The only reason we strip the facility however is because the "dmesg"
> > > tool chokes on it. The kernel is completely fine with it. I think if
> > > we'd fix dmesg we should have no trouble with making the kernel log
> > > buffer a full featured syslog queue like any other.
> > > 
> > > And the "kernel[-]: " syntax must be from your log implementation,
> > > too. What syslog implementation is that?
> > > 
> > 
> > The same rsyslog.
> > Format is "facility.priority cmd[pid]: ", but in case of kmsg looks like
> > rsyslog doesn't try to interpret "process[pid]: " prefix, at least, so
> > my guess is that it doesn't try to get any syslog metadata from this
> > messages, just passing them as-is from kernel.warning kernel[-].
> 
> Hmm, the log messages look different for us. Probably different default
> configuration on Fedora and your distro...
> 

Probably my changes entirely, I have the aforementioned format defined
in the configuration.
My apologies, should've mentioned that to avoid confusion.


> Lennart
> 


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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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