From befadde0a24c3a726689745d5a00c8586adc9c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heinrich Schuchardt Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:48:16 +0100 Subject: log: syslog driver Provide a log driver that broadcasts RFC 3164 messages to syslog servers. rsyslog is one implementation of such a server. The messages are sent to the local broadcast address 255.255.255.255 on port 514. The environment variable log_hostname can be used to provide the HOSTNAME field for the messages. The optional TIMESTAMP field of RFC 3164 is not provided. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt Reviewed-by: Simon Glass --- doc/README.log | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/README.log b/doc/README.log index 19856d43da..1057981f45 100644 --- a/doc/README.log +++ b/doc/README.log @@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ several possible determinations for logging information, all of which can be enabled or disabled independently: console - goes to stdout + syslog - broadcast RFC 3164 messages to syslog servers on UDP port 514 +The syslog driver sends the value of environmental variable 'log_hostname' as +HOSTNAME if available. Log format ---------- -- cgit v1.2.3