The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement [LWN.net]

The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 23, 2011 10:09 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by ziggyfish
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

A quick look at /var/log/syslog on my desktop Ubuntu box suggests that this turns out to only partly be the case. There are several programs (at a minimum: acpid, NetworkManager, modem-manager, dhcpd), which do not have a PID in their syslog messages.

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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 23, 2011 21:40 UTC (Wed) by ziggyfish (guest, #81547) [Link]

Not by default, however it is still possible to add this information into the log.