On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:37:06PM -0400, sven falempin wrote: > Dear list, > > Why the level information of logs are not present in log files (and yes i > could put a certain level in a certain file but then i have to sort it > all..) ?
Because "classic" syslog format is very free-form. Sorry but is this only your problem with syslog? :) There are more issues, see: - http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/11/serious-syslog-problems.html For me highest issue is one cannot trust origin of the message. Oct 4 00:20:01 laptop1 foobar: hello world So did this message, which user, which pid? j.
