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I'll add a --with-log-facility configure script option to set the
default facility, along with a "log_facility" option in the config files
to override the default at startup. Patches will be in CVS shortly.

Ryan Ordway wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>> Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>>> nsca.c @ line 134 of 1450
>>>
>>> openlog("nsca",LOG_PID|LOG_NDELAY,LOG_DAEMON);
>>>
>>> prototype: void openlog(const char *ident, int logopt, int
>>> facility);
>>>
>>> We should probably make that a config-file defined variable. At the
>>> *very* least, a GNU autoconf compile-time configure option -> #DEFINE
>>>
>> Err... say what now?
>
> ./configure --with-log-facility=local0
>
> becomes
>
> #define NSCA_SYSLOG_FACILITY LOG_LOCAL0
>
> openlog("nsca", LOG_PID|LOG_NDELAY, NSCA_SYSLOG_FACILITY);
>
>
>>> Default syslog.conf(5)'s everywhere are going to split the
>>> destination
>>> into a variety of files (because of priorities), which is insanely
>>> annoying.
>>>
>> First off, let's get one thing straight right from the start.
>> Syslog uses a facility and severity pair which, combined, is called
>> priority. It's actually a single number, calculated like so:
>>
>> pri = (fac >
>> What people normally do (in my experience) is to put logs from
>> different *facilities* in one file, and additionally log LOG_WARN
>> or LOG_ERR and above to somewhere else.
>
> This isn't always the case. In some cases you want a specific level of
> a specific facility sent to a specific log file. Or if you're using
> syslog-ng you want a specific *application* (based on the const char
> *ident parameter to openlog, "nsca" in this case) logged to a
> particular log.
>
>>> Then we can route it out to destinations regardless of priorities
>>> before
>>> fall-back facility.priority(*) wildcard gets caught.
>>>
>> Sure, but since there aren't enough facilities for every program to
>> have
>> its own, the facilities need to be shared. I fail to see the problem
>> here,
>> since so far the only ones you've mentioned are downright wrong.
>
> What about LOG_LOCAL0, LOG_LOCAL1, ... LOG_LOCAL7?
>



Ethan Galstad
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