On 24 June 2014 13:53, Kodiak Firesmith <ksf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I noticed recently while using logger in some scripts that it is not > following RFC and choosing the FQDN first if available. This stands out for > hosts with $PreserveFQDN in rsyslogd.conf as all other messages will use > FQDN and logger messages will use short hostname. > This behavior poses problems when wrangling syslog data in a correlator like > Splunk. > > Sadly I'm no coder so I cannot sort out the problem and provide a patch, but > I'm hoping one of the logger maintainers/contributors might be able to help > out. FYI I started to look how to get fqdn, RFC 3164 and RFC 5424 supported. At the moment I am thinking logger should default to RFC 5424 in future. If someone is interested of sneak peak I keep backup laptop in github branch below. https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/tree/logger -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
