From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49649 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491AbbJ2Kff (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:35:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:35:32 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Olaf Hering Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: regression in logger output to syslog Message-ID: <20151029103532.GC19508@ws.net.home> References: <20151009082541.GA9068@aepfle.de> <20151012104414.GF2356@ws.net.home> <20151012133451.GA6825@aepfle.de> <20151021093743.GA6552@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20151021093743.GA6552@aepfle.de> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:37:43AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > So, its "systemd" who eats the required info. > > In case you miss it: > > ... > We do not allow faking syslog PID fields, for security reasons, it > will always be set to what the kernel passed to journald. > > If this is something to support, then "logger" needs to to be patched so > that it can fake the SCM_CREDENTIALS metadata of the messages sent. > This requires privileges, but is not hard to do. Please file a bug > against util-linux and ask for for this to be added. Implemented, try logger(1) from util-linux git tree, please. Thanks! Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com