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Gary Gregory commented on LOG4J2-1939:
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Feel free to flush out your proposal in a patch or PR :-)
> Add appName option to SyslogLayout
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> Key: LOG4J2-1939
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1939
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Layouts
> Reporter: Kelvin
> Priority: Minor
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> The BSD syslog RFC (rfc3164) mentions that a "message" should contain a tag
> and content. The separation of the fields should be using a '[', ':' or space.
> The implementor of a system may not add the tag component as it is log layout
> specific. When not part of the message, and configuring a product to produce
> syslog, downstream syslog parsers expecting rfc3146 formatted data have a
> hard time without modifying the message before parsing or adding special
> rules for those sources.
> An appName option like Rfc5424Layout would be great. If specified it can be
> added to the message, if not the current format can be used in order to not
> disrupt any downstream parsers currently in use.
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