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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:07:27 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Johan Kruger <jkruger@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?
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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.

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	Dan Nelson
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