On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Vladimir Marek <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > Or maybe rsyslog supposes that all messages have some sort of date/time > > > at the start, so that it can't start with letter 'z'? > > > > > > Yup - valid syslog messages NEED to start with "<" (actually <PRI>). See > > RFC5424 & RFC3164. > > Oh, right! Out of your head, do you think that _not_ starting by '<' > could do any other bad things? > > Thanks for the pointer! > quite a lot, because very often it is filtered based on priorities (like mail.info /maillog). Rsyslog defaults to some values if it's not present, but that's usually not what you expect. Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
