Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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1.2.10
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All
Description
Hello,
I just want to sugges to apply the following modifications to Log4net (apply also to Log4j):
*Create a SyslogLayout layout class that formats messages into Syslog format (both RFC3164 and RFC5424). Currently you have to search for a good PatternLayout that matches RFC specifications. Even if that could be, ultimately, inheriting from PatternLayout and setting a constant pattern... At least we have a valid layout in a class
*RemoteSyslogAppender currently prepends the PriVal field to the regular message formatted accordingly with the pattern. SimpleLayout might not work properly. Suggesting to make RemoteSyslogAppender work only with properly implemented SyslogLayout[s] for both the RFCs
Having a Syslog layout, especially for RFC5424 which is not only recent, but supports a full UTC timestamp complete with year (unsupported by RFC3164) is very useful when performing long-term log analysis and allows to store messages in Syslog format into files, almost like syslog-ng daemon does with /var/log/messages.
I'm currently working on an open source logging framework (Logbus-ng) that does only log collection and broadcasting and that we want to make fully compatible with Log4xxx: our team has already implemented a fully working formatter for Syslog RFC5424 messages. If you need code, we can share it.
I personally plan to implement these two features as classes external to Log4net, but I would like to suggest the Log4net dev team to do so before us because I feel the utility of such a work for the community.
Thank you.