hi all,
I was thinking what would be the best way for submitting events to the
local rsyslog server. Quite often, piping one or more lines to
/usr/bin/logger, or calling openlog(3) and syslog(3) are sufficient for
the job. There are cases, however, when they are not good enough, since
they restrict logging with a single tag.
As an alternative, one could communicate with rsyslog directly over the
/dev/log UNIX domain socket. I was wondering what would be the best
event format for writing to /dev/log. Typically, each call to syslog(3)
uses the following format: <priority>timestamp tag: messagetext
(in other words, BSD syslog format without the hostname field)
However, rsyslog also has the ability to provide the incoming event with
a timestamp if it is not present, and according to my observations, the
following format is also handled properly by rsyslog:
<priority>tag: messagetext
I was wondering if the format without timestamp is something which can
be safely used over different versions of rsyslog, and is supported
alongside with regular format used by syslog(3).
kind regards,
risto
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