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.
>>
>>
>



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Regards,
Sri.
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