Thanks for the replies. My question is more on how to extend facilities, rather on how to filter the messages. It seems there is a code in the toolchain syslog.h where the array representing the facilities needs to be extended. Please correct me if I am wrong. Sri. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > you would be creating a completely different over-the-wire protocol for your > syslog messages. > > however, note that newer syslog daemons (syslog-ng and rsyslog for example) > allow you to do filtering on just about anything in the message, not just > the facility and severity. > > David Lang > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Sri Ram Vemulpali wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:11:59 -0400 >> From: Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, >> linux-newbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Question on syslogd and syslog >> >> Hello All, >> >> I am looking to modify number of facilities available in syslog so >> that for my application I can have much more array of them at disposal >> of my need. So currently only LOG_LOCAL0 - LOG_LOCAL7 are defined for >> user, what if I want to extend them, is there a way I can extend them. >> Or should I go ahead and modify the source code of syslog. Can any >> please point me in right direction and where can I get syslogd and >> syslog source code. Thanks in advance. >> >> > -- Regards, Sri. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
