rsyslog now has 'trusted properties'

Posted Dec 1, 2011 3:43 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Change... to what? by michich
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

it turns out that rsyslog already used SCM_CREDENTIALS to let you log the pid of the program, it's now added the ability to log some additional values

_UID The userid under which the logging process is being executed.
_GID The group id under which the logging process is being executed.
_PID The PID of the logging process. Note that this PID, if configured, is also put into the syslog tag.
_EXE Path to the binary that is logging
_COMM The name (as visible by top) of the logging process.
_EXE The full command line of the logging process. Note that this string can contain spaces, thus it is always provided in quoted form.

http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/11/trusted-properties-in-rs...

http://www.rsyslog.com/what-are-trusted-properties/

now that didn't take scrapping all existing logging practice to get did it?