Based on Rainers text, the issue's/problems of Chris, and the
expirence in implementing it. The following text is proposed to be
included in syslog-sign.
"""
The TAG is a string of visible (printing) characters excluding SP,
that MUST NOT exceed 64 characters in length.
The first occurrence of a SP (space) will terminate the TAG field,
but is not part of it.
It is RECOMMENDED to terminate the TAG with a colon (':'), which if
used, is part of the TAG.
The TAG is used to denote the sender of the message. And is
RECOMMENDED to have the following syntax:
TAG = full-stat-id full-dyn-id ':'
full-stat-id = path path-sep progname
full-dyn-id = '[' proc-id thread-part ']'
path = VISUAL *
path-sep = ( '/' | '\' )
progname = VISUAL *
proc-id = ALFANUM * ; recommended: number
thread-part = ( EMPTY | thread-sep ALFANUM )
thread-sep = VISUAL ; recommended: ",", or ':', or '.'
EMPTY = "" ; nothing!
VISUAL = ([a-zA-Z0-9...], excusing '['
(hope I have the this syntax OK --please correct ALbert)
The PROGNAME part is special, as it is frequently used by relays to
determine the routing of a message. As a note to implementors: it
can be found by getting the visual part before the first occurrence
of '[', and after the last '\' of '/' part of that segment.
An example of a TAG is: (without the quotes)
"/path/to/PROGNAME[123,456]:"
Systems that use both process-ID's and thead-IDs, SHOULD fill both
the proc-id and the thread-part. For other systems it is
RECOMMENDED to use the proc-id only.
Receivers SHOULD, to be consistent with the format described in
RFC3164, accept TAGs that terminate with a single colon, without a
space following it. Then the colon is both the last character of
that TAG, and the field separator with the next field (MSG).
"""
--
ALbert Mietus
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