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Issue 2: TAG Field Definition
- Subject: Issue 2: TAG Field Definition
- From: Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:11:22 -0700
Issue 2: TAG Field Definition
http://www.employees.org/~lonvick/draft-ietf-syslog-sign-12.html#HEADER
>From Archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01224.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01234.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01222.html
Rainer has proposed the following text:
"""
The TAG is a string of visible (printing) characters excluding SP,
that MUST NOT exceed 32 characters in length.
The first occurrence of a colon (":") or SP " " character terminates
the TAG field. Generally, the TAG contains the name of the process
that generated the message. It may OPTIONALLY contain additional
information such as the numerical process ID of that process bound
within square brackets ("[" and "]"). A colon MUST be the last
character in this field.
To be consistent with the format described in RFC 3164, a space
character need not follow the colon in normal syslog packets.
"""
However, anyone trying to convey information of "Myproc[PID,Threadid]:"
may have a problem with something like
syslog[12345,C:\usr\sbin\cron]:
Albert suggests just having "syslog" in the cert/sig-block messages
but that seems to be inconsistent with the possible formats of the
normal syslog messages.
Can anyone offer a suggestion to resolve this?