7.2. Features and Capabilities of logmuxd
We want logmuxd to work either with an existing syslogd installation or as a replacement for it. That is, we need to be able to read and write messages in the syslog style of angle brackets surrounding an integer. We want our logging daemon to support many types of input and many types of destinations, to be able to route based on a regex, and to be able to rewrite a log message before forwarding it on to its destination.
Each destination has its own set of routing and rewriting rules. This is similar to syslogd and means that you may have otherwise identical filters with the output of each filter going to a different destination.
Filters use the regex() library for pattern matching and for extracting relevant ...
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