In some email I received from Albert Mietus, sie wrote:
[...]
> To structer the new ones, I suggest to code the diggits, like e.g. the
> errorcodes in several other protocols
>
> So the list of facilities becomes:
> Numerical code Facility
> Code
>
> 0 kernel messages
> ... as in the draft ...
> 23 local use 7 (local7)
> 24-29 local use 8-13
> 3* Web application
> 4* Financial application
> 5* Legal application
> 7* database application
> 8* engineering application
> 9*.. 11* I HAVE NO CLUE; PLEASE ADD SOME
> 120-
> *0 generic
> *1 server-side
> *2 client-side
> *3 middleware
> *4-6 WE NEED TO ADD THEM
> *7-9 local-extension 1/2/3
You're replacing one arbitrary numbering scheme with yet another.
How does this help ? Furthermore, 3* also matches 302739193.
Maybe you should have said "3?, 4?, ..." or "30-39, etc".
I don't see that this necessarily adds anything of value to syslog.
Darren
