On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't even know you could do (r)syslog without facilities. Every client > app, > when configured to log to syslog, seems to require a facility, even if not a > severity. I'd love to get rid of this albatross. Is this a good start?: > > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_filter.html >
Not for nothing was rsyslog chosen as the de factor standard logger on most of the linuxes. > Are you basically saying that one can ignore true "syslog" and just have a > client > server's rsyslogd remotely log any text log file to the log server, based on > these > filters? > This is how I used it, yes. > Is it safe to assume that Adiscon's own LogAnalyzer can digest these > non-syslog-like logs without much trouble? > YMMV. But I think it might not have problems it'd just list an empty field, but in some cases I saw it puts the arbitrary used tag as an severity or facility, again YMMV. > Thanks again! > > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > -- -Sivan _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
