On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, RB wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 18:11, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a need to use some products that are stupid enough to ignore the >> host field in the syslog message and instead base everything on the IP >> address the message originates from. >> >> some other syslog servers can handle this by forging the source of the UDP >> packet, can rsyslog do this? > > So is rsyslog originating the messages, or are you using it to > aggregate them and then feed them on to the other [bad] acceptors? I > am unaware of a way to get rsyslog to forge packets (short of writing > an output module), but unless you must get another syslog daemon into > the mix, you may be better off just feeding your messages directly to > the other collector.
rsyslog would be the relay from one non-routed network to another non-routed network. this could be a fairly simple change to the UDP output module (adding a couple commands around the sending of a message), but before I dove in to do that I wanted to see if I had missed this feature anywhere. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
