On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Risto Vaarandi wrote:

As for changing syslog tag field dynamically for every message -- unfortunately, the openlog(3) C-library function sets the program name for all subsequent logging, so this means that connection to syslog would have to be reopened and closed for each call to syslog(3) function. I think there is no clean way to replace the program name string temporarily with something else, so I will have to investigate what would be the possible performance penalty of opening and closing connection to syslogd for each logging attempt.

syslog is a very simple protocol, if the libc functions don't give you the flexibility that you need, why not offer a plainer option?

all you really need to do is to open /dev/log and then write an appropriatly formatted message. the only think that's at all 'hard' about the message is setting the facility/severity number.

David Lang

kind regards,
risto

--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Tim Peiffer <peif...@umn.edu> wrote:

From: Tim Peiffer <peif...@umn.edu>
Subject: [Simple-evcorr-users] New feature requests
To: simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 12:31 AM
I would like to get a new feature -
configuration file includes.  I
would like to have an alternate method of specifying
configurations that
would load up @conffiles similar to multiple invocations of

-conf=file1.cfg -conf=file2.cfg.    I don't know
if I want a new
configuration style, recycle from the current config
style.   For me,
this is a housekeeping issue more than a performance
issue.  I would
like to run one correlator for several services, keeping a
separate
config for each service.   I have about a
half dozen discreet areas that
I monitor logs now.  I expect that to grow in the
coming months.

type=include
desc=this is configuration file1
pattern=/home/sec/includes/file1.cfg
source=file1

type=include
desc=this is configuration file2
pattern=/home/sec/includes/file2.cfg
source=file2

A second new feature is the ability to specify the syslog
options. This
would allow me to write log events at varying priorities,
and allow me
to specify error numbers  I would like tag similar to
'logger -t
<tag>'.  I think I would like it to be an option
to logonly, and would
conceivably replace $progname in open_syslog()

Please advise,
Tim Peiffer

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