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| author | Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com> | 2019-05-14 10:45:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2019-05-15 15:09:27 +0200 |
| commit | 63ea8032f28052f7cda860e5324c0a83dee7ed23 (patch) | |
| tree | 44cbb6d6fee9b740703aeab46fe65a67e3770e22 /man/systemd.journal-fields.xml | |
| parent | 73130b0bcf92750b495fabcc3cbc6ac60f315c48 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-63ea8032f28052f7cda860e5324c0a83dee7ed23.tar.gz | |
man: note that journal does not validate syslog fields
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diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml index 960b2ec633..fa374bf0f8 100644 --- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml +++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ usually derived from glibc's <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> |