Re: syslog facility

[rory]

I've added the capability to choose LOG_LOCALn (see cvs comments).

I'll add the docs later. While I'm at it, it looks like I need to:

make sure everything compiles and runs on Solaris and FreeBSD
finish MacOSX

Also, I noticed we log everything as LOG_ERROR. (I spent an hour trying to
figure out why my openlog() call wasn't working like I thought it was,
only to find we invoked
syslog(LOG_USR|LOG_ERR, "")

Anyway, I think it would be worthwhile to add a parameter to log() that is
ignored unless we're using syslog. This would pass the priority to syslog.
So, for adding priority to individual log messages: +1


> Super :)
>
> I'm working on device stuff again (after lot of weeks being busy for my
>  employer + health). I will prepare next patch on sunday, maybe it will
>  be mature enough to sync it into CVS.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Rory Toma wrote:
>
>>I agree (+1) and I'll put it in next week (after I finish rewriting
>>some Makefiles at work...)
>>
>>On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:55, Martin Pala wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>i have one question - what about to add possibility to choose syslog
>>>facility to monit?
>>>
>>>In our environment (tens of servers) we use central syslog server,
>>>which  catches feeds from all services. With some more feature rich
>>>syslog  servers (such as syslog-ng) it is not issue to have the same
>>>facility  for different targets (you can filter logs with the same
>>>facility by  program name), but with OS default and widely used syslog
>>>(linux,  solaris, ...) the only way is to set other facility (for
>>>example local3,  etc.) which can be then redirected to other syslog
>>>server (all or  nothing rule).
>>>
>>>example:
>>>
>>>user.debug      /var/log/messages    #system messages which we won't
>>>for  some reason to send to central-syslog server
>>>local3.debug   @central-syslog        #monit messages which should be
>>>send to cetral-syslog server
>>>
>>>If it will be possible to set local3 facility in monitrc, then it will
>>> be easy to do it without changing system syslog server SW.
>>>
>>>What about it?
>>>
>>>I'm +1 for adding syslog facility option to monit.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
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