> > > > 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.
Right. I'll investigate why I am getting the malformed syslog message
then.
Thank you again
--
Vlad
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