On Thu, 11.12.14 17:16, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote:

> > I agree with your findings, and basically thats how the zmq journal gateway 
> > works as
> > well. And thanks to bring the "wait for network" up here, you would miss 
> > important
> > boot log entries here. 
> > 
> > Would the upload tool learn a new URL for this purpose i.e. 
> > syslog://<ip>:514 ?
>
> Or a broadcast address, so no configuration is required.

I'd really like to see broadcast delivery I must say.

> > >> > Initial plan was to implement the most straighforward syslog 
> > >> > forwarding,
> > >> > so only the MESSAGE field would be sent.
> > >>  
> > >> it would be great to have at least the following format to send to 
> > >> syslog:
> > >> 
> > >> "<%pri%>%protocol-version% %timestamp:::date-rfc3339% %HOSTNAME% 
> > >> %app-name%
> > >> %procid% %msg%\n"
> > >> 
> > >> described as rsyslog configuration. All the meta infos are there IMHO.
> > > Yes. We just wouldn't go into "structured" syslog messages to carry other
> > > fields.
> > 
> > I agreed as well mapping then into the "struct syslog format" wold be a 
> > config
> > pain I assume. However the one we listed above should be there
> > ?!?!...
>
> That's rfc5424, right? Then yes.

Is that RFC actually widely adopted? I'd stay as conservative as
possible with all of this.

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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