[MINOR] log: ability to override the syslog tag
One of the requirements we have is to run multiple instances of haproxy on a
single host; this is so that we can split the responsibilities (and change
permissions) between product teams. An issue we ran up against is how we
would distinguish between the logs generated by each instance. The solution
we came up with (please let me know if there is a better way) is to override
the application tag written to syslog. We can then configure syslog to write
these to different files.
I have attached a patch adding a global option 'log-tag' to override the
default syslog tag 'haproxy' (actually defaults to argv[0]).
diff --git a/src/cfgparse.c b/src/cfgparse.c
index a67b348..28eb1ca 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse.c
+++ b/src/cfgparse.c
@@ -988,6 +988,15 @@
global.log_send_hostname = malloc(len + 2);
snprintf(global.log_send_hostname, len + 2, "%s ", name);
}
+ else if (!strcmp(args[0], "log-tag")) { /* tag to report to syslog */
+ if (*(args[1]) == 0) {
+ Alert("parsing [%s:%d] : '%s' expects a tag for use in syslog.\n", file, linenum, args[0]);
+ err_code |= ERR_ALERT | ERR_FATAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ free(global.log_tag);
+ global.log_tag = strdup(args[1]);
+ }
else if (!strcmp(args[0], "spread-checks")) { /* random time between checks (0-50) */
if (global.spread_checks != 0) {
Alert("parsing [%s:%d]: spread-checks already specified. Continuing.\n", file, linenum);