Wrong process name/pid

[seppo0010]

In OS X the logs look like this

Aug  4 16:57:15 Seppos-MacBook-Air Unknown[4294967295] <Alert>: "hello world"

Notice Unknown[4294967295], which are supposed to be the process name and id, both are incorrect.

In Linux, they look like this

Aug  4 23:59:14 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64 ntpdate[1436]: adjust time server 91.189.89.199 offset -0.007467 sec
Aug  4 23:59:51 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64  "hello world"

Included ntpdate as a reference. Process name and pid are skipped.

[seppo0010]

In my use case specifically, I'd like to be able to customize the identifier and not take automatically the process name. See https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/redis.conf#L145 as a reference.

[Geal]

Could you show me the ode you are using? send does not add any information, it just sends your message to syslog, in case you want to format it yourself. send_3164 and send_5424should do what you want.

Right now, for me, on OSX I get (with examples/write.rs, just after fixing #3):

Aug  5 09:25:56 MacBook-de-Geo Unknown: hello world

If I change the function to send_3164, I get:

Aug  5 09:26:35 MacBook-de-Geo 2015-08-05T07: 26:35Z localhost write[56190]: hello world

[Geal]

I'll add a function to modify the process name

[Geal]

Ok, 1c768ad should have the functions you need.

[seppo0010]

In both cases, I'm using the code from README.md:

extern crate syslog;

use syslog::{Facility,Severity};

fn main() {
  match syslog::unix(Facility::LOG_USER) {
    Err(e)         => println!("impossible to connect to syslog: {:?}", e),
    Ok(writer) => {
      let r = writer.send(Severity::LOG_ALERT, String::from("hello world"));
      if r.is_err() {
        println!("error sending the log {}", r.err().expect("got error"));
      }
    }
  }
}

[seppo0010]

Do you want me to run it with some extra debug code?

[Geal]

Can you try with the version 2.2.0? I'll update the readme to put send_3164 instead of send.

[seppo0010]

It works fine if I use send_3164. I'm not sure what send is doing reading its source, so I think this is not an issue... updating README will be useful. Thanks!

[Geal]

README fixed in 2dd4245

[seppo0010]

In c287654 perhaps? 😀

[Geal]

Yes, obviously. Sorry, I am really tired right now, and should not mess around much with code :)

Did the set_process function work for you?

[seppo0010]

Yes, set_process_name worked. Thanks.