Re: [Wrapper-user] wrapper with syslog host

[Leif M. <lei...@ta...>]

Robert,
Thank you for the extra info.  I got a UDP based syslog target working
that is based on RFC3164 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt)  It
limits the message length to 1024 characters.  Lines that are longer
than that will be wrapper into multiple packets.

It still needs a lot of testing, but we will have this in the 3.5.0
release due out by the end of June.

Will this be sufficient?  TCP based logging would be a bit more
difficult to handle because of the possibility that the outgoing
packets could block.

Cheers,
Leif

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Leland, Robert <rob...@io...> wrote:
> It might be helpful to be specific as to the type of SYSLOG server
> support is desired.
>
> The UDP based SYSLOG is easiest to support since there is a standard.
>
> As far as the TCP SYSLOG it's been 18 months worked with that and then
> there was no SYSLOG standard over Connected TCP networks. The closest to
> that is a open source/commercial product that others seem to follow.
> The SYSLOG-TCP or SYSLOG-NG servers that exist all behave very
> differently.
> Since the pseudo standard was based on the UDP version 18 months ago
> most if not all still had a message size limit that varies from 1K to 4K
> depending on the implementation. They also vary on how they piece
> together messages.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Mortenson [mailto:lei...@ta...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:51 AM
> To: wra...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Wrapper-user] wrapper with syslog host
>
> Gerald,
> Sorry for the delay on this.  We were investigating what is possible
> at an OS level as well as the possibility of sending the remote syslog
> messages directly.  The Wrapper does not currently support this.
> Please confirm that you are wanting to send the Wrapper's output to a
> remote syslog server directly, and not all of the syslog activity on
> the server.
>
> Cheers,
> Leif
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Gerald Schnabel
> <ger...@gm...> wrote:
>> hi,
>> I am using a syslog server, which is running on a separate machine.
> Most applications I use are configured with log4j
>> where I can use a syslog appender with the parameter SyslogHost.
>> But for the java service wrapper I can just find the properties
>>
>> wrapper.syslog.facility
>> wrapper.syslog.ident
>> wrapper.syslog.loglevel
>>
>> How can I configure the java service wrapper for using the syslog
> server?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gerald