Thank You David :) On 11/13/05, David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A. <d.tonhofer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --On Sunday, November 13, 2005 4:59 PM +0530 Nikhil < > mnikhil.juno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > But this is not the same on Solaris, as I do get them on a Solaris ' > syslog . Why this should not be the case with Linux as well ? > > > > > > On 11/12/05, David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A. <d.tonhofer@xxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure that there is no way to set up the format without > changing syslogd's > > code (which is probably not hard to do, BTW). > > > > Because Solaris != Linux ? > > Seriously though, Solaris seems to have more feature-full logging > facilities. > Which is nice. In particular: > > man log (7D): http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5177/6mbbc4g7k?a=view > man syslogd (1M): > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kqig?a=view > man syslog.conf (4): > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5174/6mbb98uka?a=view > > In 'log', we read: > > "log is a STREAMS software device driver that provides an interface for > console > logging and for the STREAMS error logging and event tracing processes" > > And in 'syslogd': > > "If message ID generation is enabled (see log(7D)), each message will be > preceded > by an identifier in the following format: [ID msgid facility.priority]. > msgid > is the message's numeric identifier described in msgid(1M). facility and > priority > are described in syslog.conf(4). [ID 123456 kern.notice] is an example of > an > identifier when message ID generation is enabled." > > So you can configure logging through STREAMS ... but > AFAIK no-one ever bothered to polish STREAMS to a usable degree under > Linux. > And it is not used for syslogging. > > > A quick peek at the source for syslog and syslogd > > (obtained through: > up2date --get-source sysklogd > rpm --install /var/spool/up2date/sysklogd-1.4.1-26_EL.src.rpm > cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ > tar xzf sysklogd-1.4.1rh.tar.gz > cd sysklogd-1.4.1rh > vi syslog.c) > > ...reveals that the logging format is quite hardcoded. > > In syslog ("the utility to log something"), the logging priority > is written out at the start of the line, enclosed in < >, if > the message goes to the 'local logger' but not if it goes to a > file. The 'local logger' would be syslogd, and indeed in > syslogd.c, one sees that the <pri> value is stripped out and used > to set the priority. After that, a lot of stuff happens to get > the message to where one wants it. But the priority is not included > in the final output. > > So...if you absolutely need the priority, my best guess would be > to modify syslogd.c to insert it in the output, then install your > modified syslog-daemon. > > Best regards, > > -- David > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
