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[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-04-24 at 17:58 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
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> > Syslog-ng IS the Linux system log daemon, however  it performs function
> > in much the same way as a Mainframe  Daemon works and depending on my
> > audience I have to be very specific with the reference 'syslog daemon'
> > due its multiple meanings.
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> I simply meant that the syslog or syslog-ng daemon in linux doesn't do 
> what you want, ie, record the priority level in the string sent to the 
> file, nor do I know how to write it, short of modifying the source code, 
> which I haven't even inspected to estimate the dificulty of such a simple 
> modification.

I don't think there's a source modification needed for syslog-ng.
One can specify $LEVEL in a template() clause in a destination 
section. E.g.

destination d_file {
    file("/var/log/messages");
    template("$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC $TZ $HOST [$LEVEL] $MSG\n");
    template_escape(no);
}

(This is taken straight from the syslog-ng documentation in 
/usr/share/doc/packages/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.pdf. I would add some 
more information like $DATE and $FACILITY. ;-)

$LEVEL expands to the name of the level and not to a number, though.

Best,
        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
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