Hello, Couple weeks I wrote few logger(1) changes that has been lying in my git repo waiting release to happen. Now when the v2.25 is out it's time to consider these changes. Some of the changes are inspired by request from Kodiak, who is CC'd with them. He approached me after rc1 release that could I add fully qualified hostname to logger's remote server logging. When I looked syslog related RFC's I realized the old BSD syslog protocol (rfc 3164) does not seem to cover the fqdn case. So supporting more recent protocol (rfc 5424) felt like a good idea. Here is a example of rfc 5424 logger line after syslog-ng received it. Jun 28 14:41:02 127.0.0.1 1 2014-06-28T14:41:02.762100+0100 kerolasa.example.com tag - [timeQuality tzKnown="1" isSynced="1" syncAccuracy="506435"] message The additional ISO-8601 style time stamp and time quality markups are enabled by default. Plus I am proposing to use the new format as default when logging to remote server, with an option --rfc3164 to revert to old format when needed. Maybe that is a step too far, or maybe not. Either way comments, opinions, request for further changes, and such would be nice to hear. Sami Kerola (10): logger: ensure program writes everything to syslog file descriptor logger: fix indentation issues logger: do not rely only getlogin(3) telling who ran the command logger: refactor long if clause docs: make logger.1 facilities and levels easier to read logger: add function pointer to choose how logging is done logger: add rfc5424 support docs: add logger protocol notes to manual page logger: add process --id=parent optional argument logger: make --stderr print remote server messages audit_getloginuid | 0 bash-completion/logger | 2 +- misc-utils/logger.1 | 98 ++++++++++++---- misc-utils/logger.c | 300 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 4 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-) create mode 100644 audit_getloginuid The following changes since commit a3c74d88e126552b457e964bfa288f39df8dd81a: swapon: don't print errors as data in smartcols table (2014-07-22 12:29:38 +0200) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit.git for you to fetch changes up to c1f7a32499b162a33433160cb5778a3b59840757: logger: make --stderr print remote server messages (2014-07-22 22:29:04 +0100) -- 2.0.2 -- 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
