From: david@lang.hm
To: Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on syslogd and syslog
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:33:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1107051732170.7310@asgard.lang.hm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALyraeO1N3rvtHkRd9YWWV6azg-Y42dM3W9ytwo-nV4Rik3=9g@mail.gmail.com>
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the mechanism for putting all the logs with a paticular facility in a
different logfile if the filtering that I mentioned. if you use anything
other than sysklogd, you can filter things into files based on anything in
the message, not just the facility.
David Lang
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Sri Ram Vemulpali
wrote:
> Facilities of syslogd are associated to a particular file. So, in my
> application there are 20 tasks which needs to have a separate log file
> for every task. So, mapping every task to one facility fills my
> requirement. So, this is the reason I want to extend the facilities of
> level LOGLOCAL0-7.
>
> Coming to previous question, the purpose is to fulfill the above requirement.
>
> Thanks,
> Sri.
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:23 PM, <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>> the problem is that in the syslog spec, the facility and severity get
>> combined into one 8 bit field (one of the two only has 12 values defined
>> instead of 16, but I don't remember off the top of my head which one)
>>
>> so extending this is creating a new protocol.
>>
>> also, the reason I was talking about filtering is that other than filtering,
>> what purpose is there in settng the facility?
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Sri Ram Vemulpali wrote:
>>
>>> 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@lang.hm> 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@gmail.com>
>>>>> To: linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
>>>>> linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 18:11 Question on syslogd and syslog Sri Ram Vemulpali
2011-06-28 19:41 ` david
2011-07-02 14:28 ` Sri Ram Vemulpali
2011-07-02 17:23 ` david
2011-07-03 17:54 ` Sri Ram Vemulpali
2011-07-06 0:33 ` david [this message]
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