On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said:
> >
> > The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the
> > date matches the program, the action specified in the action
> > field will be taken ..."
> > Now the program should the be !4.5.6.1 or one of the ones i previously
> > mentioned.
>
> That documentation is misleading, then. The hostname is definitely not
> looked at. See syslogd.c, the logmsg() function.
I've often thought it would be nice to be able to get syslogd to
make choices based on hostname. I'm sure a patch would be easy
enough to produce, but the trick would be to produce a good syntax
fox syslog.conf. Are there any syslogds that can do this? What
syntax do they use?
David.
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