It's a tough one. Software that follows standards generally work well with other software and just makes life less complex. However a lot of these RFC's are very dated and have not kept track with time and 2001 when rfc3164 was published is a long time ago.
If there is a flag which is not set by default and which is documented as breaking the standard it might be acceptable to allow longer tags. Users should break at own risk... Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards > Sent: 14 March 2008 09:50 > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] Feedback requested - length of syslog tag > > Hi all, > > I got the following bug report (and patch - thx) for situation where the > syslog tag is larger than 32 characters. > > http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50 > > Syslog rfcs prohibit such oversize tags. However, I think seeing them in > practice triggers the question if we should really follow RFC 3164 and > the newer rfcs in this case. Or may it be better to have at least an > option to allow tags of more than 32 characters? > > If you have an opinion, please voice it. > > Thanks, > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
