Hi, When providing --octet-count with --rfc5424, the message prefixes the message length on the message. This however comes before priority, and the syslog message looks like: 120 <13>1 2023-12-11T14:22:08.433695-06:00 kora root - rsyslog_dbg [timeQuality tzKnown="1" isSynced="0"] dummy goes to town If you notice, <13> is shown in the message itself, as opposed to be interpreted as priority by the logging process. Command: ./logger --rfc5424 --octet-count --stderr --socket /dev/log "dummy goes to town" Without --octet-count, the message is fine comes out fine. -- Goldwyn