Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:40:01 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Johan Kruger <jkruger@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Remote syslog with a tag ? Message-ID: <20000613224001.A1980@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20000613171241.A54763@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:12:41PM %2B0100 References: <20000613091107.A24675@dan.emsphone.com> <XFMail.000613165343.jkruger@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za> <20000613110727.A22848@dan.emsphone.com> <20000613171241.A54763@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:12:41PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: > > > > > > The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the > > > date matches the program, the action specified in the action > > > field will be taken ..." > > > Now the program should the be !4.5.6.1 or one of the ones i previously > > > mentioned. > > > > That documentation is misleading, then. The hostname is definitely not > > looked at. See syslogd.c, the logmsg() function. ! is for programmnames and not hostnames. And I asume they work only localy. > I've often thought it would be nice to be able to get syslogd to > make choices based on hostname. I'm sure a patch would be easy > enough to produce, but the trick would be to produce a good syntax > fox syslog.conf. Are there any syslogds that can do this? What > syntax do they use? I have a patched version to do this. If anyone is interessted I'm producing diffs. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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