It doesn't look from just reading the RFC as if it would be that hard to distinguish
Between : <34>Oct 11 22:14:15 mymachine su: 'su root' failed for lonvick on /dev/pts/8 <34>1 2003-10-11T22:14:15.003Z mymachine.example.com su - ID47 - BOM'su root' failed for lonvick on /dev/pts/8 The latter being 5424 format.. As well as : <165>Aug 24 05:34:00 CST 1987 mymachine myproc[10]: %% It's time to make the do-nuts. %% Ingredients: Mix=OK, Jelly=OK # Devices: Mixer=OK, Jelly_Injector=OK, Frier=OK # Transport: Conveyer1=OK, Conveyer2=OK # %% <165>1 2003-10-11T22:14:15.003Z mymachine.example.com evntslog - ID47 [exampleSDID@32473 iut="3" eventSource= "Application" eventID="1011"] BOMAn application event log entry… I.e : <165>1 looks like enough to at least make a guesstimate? /je On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:50 PM, Willem Jiang wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if the RFC 5424 has back ward compatibility to RFC 3164. > If it is we could keep the component name with camel-syslog, otherwise would > move on to call it camel-syslog2. > > I just have a quick look at the syslog4j license, it is using GPL which means > we cannot host this component in Apache repo. But we have the camel-extra > project[1] which can host this kind of components. > > [1]https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/camel-extra/ > > On Wed Nov 23 11:11:12 2011, geemang wrote: >> The current syslog is using an outdated RFC 3164. Since, I'm in need of a >> syslog RFC 5424 component I've created one that current wraps syslog4j for >> the marshalling, the rest I can pretty much copy and extend the existing >> syslog implementation. >> >> Questions >> 1) I'm open to contributing this, do you guys want this if it uses syslog4j >> under the covers? >> 2) If so, what should it be called? syslog2? >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/syslog-RFC-5424-dataformat-component-tp5015386p5015386.html >> Sent from the Camel Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- > Willem > ---------------------------------- > FuseSource > Web: http://www.fusesource.com > Blog: http://willemjiang.blogspot.com (English) > http://jnn.javaeye.com (Chinese) > Twitter: willemjiang > Weibo: willemjiang