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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Subject: Re: regression in logger output to syslog
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:35:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151029103532.GC19508@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151021093743.GA6552@aepfle.de>

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


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-29 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-09  8:25 regression in logger output to syslog Olaf Hering
2015-10-12 10:44 ` Karel Zak
2015-10-12 13:34   ` Olaf Hering
2015-10-21  9:37     ` Olaf Hering
2015-10-29 10:35       ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-10-29 14:20         ` Olaf Hering
2015-10-29 14:36           ` Lennart Poettering
2015-10-29 15:32             ` Karel Zak

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