| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: syslog_line_prefix |
| Date: | 2009-09-27 20:54:37 |
| Message-ID: | 1254084877.26564.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 16:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Then why not send everything to syslog and have syslog filter it to the
> > places you want to? That is what syslog is for, after all.
>
> We send all syslog output with the same identifier/priority/facility,
> so there's not a lot of hope of getting syslog to do any useful
> filtering (at least not with the versions of syslog I'm familiar with).
Time to upgrade then. ;-) For example, the default syslog in Fedora has
been rsyslog since Fedora 8, and that one can do a lot more than just
filter by identifier/priority/facility. syslog-ng is another popular
example for a more featureful syslog.
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