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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:12:41 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?
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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.

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?

	David.


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