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| author | Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com> | 2019-05-14 10:45:08 +0200 |
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| committer | The Plumber <50238977+systemd-rhel-bot@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-07-26 13:44:44 +0200 |
| commit | 705a67a53a8a1b836ef17f048366bbf33357afc1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a0d3ebc4e8232412cbbd6e043b8865cf7af2879 | |
| parent | 8d1a8f099dbf79d0e18e055721228192a637a759 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-705a67a53a8a1b836ef17f048366bbf33357afc1.tar.gz | |
man: note that journal does not validate syslog fields
(cherry picked from commit 63ea8032f28052f7cda860e5324c0a83dee7ed23)
Resolves: #1707175
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.journal-fields.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml index c079274c32..0c95c4cd95 100644 --- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml +++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml @@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ <varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname> variable, see <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para> + <para>Note that the journal service does not validate the values of any structured + journal fields whose name is not prefixed with an underscore, and this includes any + syslog related fields such as these. Hence, applications that supply a facility, PID, + or log level are expected to do so properly formatted, i.e. as numeric integers formatted + as decimal strings.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |