On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <deja...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:18:29PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> On Monday, November 15, 2010, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: >> > > > This may truncate entity, and of course breaks existing filtering >> > > > setups that trigger on it. >> > >> > Right. So, this needs to be optional. >> >> Ok, any favourite option keyword in logd.cf? If it comes to me, the present >> logd.cf *suggests* that not adding the commong log entity is a bug: >> >> <quote> >> # Entity to be shown at beginning of a message >> # for logging daemon >> # Default: "logd" >> entity logd >> </quote> >> >> Was that option only for its own messages? > > Yes, and the default in case the client didn't supply its entity. > >> Isn't that a bit over-due? > > I guess you meant overkill? Perhaps. > >> So maybe >> "entity none" should suppress it in the future? > > We can't change the semantic. So, we need a new option name. > extra_entity? common_entity?
fwiw, syslog_facility works the way Bernd proposed _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
