Question: How can users specify the tag portion of a syslog message using the SyslogAppender from log4j-1.2.15?
According to section 4.1.3 of the BSD syslog protocol <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt> , it specifies that the message payload of a syslog message is composed of a 32 alphanumeric tag and the actual message. However, I see no way to currently do so short of configuring via an XML file that specifies a PatternLayout with a ConversionPattern hard coding the tag. My major grievance with this is because it requires the user to figure how to format log statements to work with syslog. If I had my say, there would be a simple tag property on the SyslogAppender along with its associated getter and setter methods. Whenever the user sets this via configuration, it would complain if the tag contains non-alphanumeric characters or exceeds the 32 character limit. Then whenever a message is logged, it would automatically prefix the message with the tag along with the necessary divider (left square bracket or colon). Thanks, Andrew R Feller, Analyst University Information Systems 200 Fred Frey Building Louisiana State University <http://www.lsu.edu/> Baton Rouge, LA, 70803 (225) 578-3737 (Office) (225) 578-6400 (Fax)
