syslog-ng output

sidra · 07-25-2006, 08:46 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to create a a logging system for some applications using ACE Logging strategies and directing the output from the code to syslog-ng. I'm trying to get syslog-ng to print out the line # from where the message was directed to the log file. By default the output doesn't contain any line # information. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

acid_kewpie · 07-26-2006, 04:08 PM

what do you mean by "line #"? you want each new line to have the total number of lines in the file? could you give us more context about your situation?

sidra · 07-26-2006, 04:33 PM

You know how in the syslog output the text message is displayed from whereever the debug statement was, i need to output the line# in the file from where the message is coming from in the syslog output

sidra · 07-26-2006, 04:36 PM

For instance this is a call at line 36 in my file called "Use_Syslog.cpp":

MY_INFO( ACE_TEXT ("Testing Macro\n") );

This ouput is directed to syslog-ng's /var/log/messages file. This message is displayed but i also want line 36 as part of the /var/log/messages file entry. I'm able to display the file name but not the line #

Thanks!

acid_kewpie · 07-27-2006, 01:42 AM

how is syslog-ng supposed to know that information?? sounds like this is actually a C++ question aobut how to get that line number within the code.