programname¶

Extracts the static program name portion from the syslog tag.

This property belongs to the Message Properties group.

Name:: programname
Category:: Message Properties
Type:: string

Description¶

The “static” part of the tag, as defined by BSD syslogd. For example, when TAG is “named[12345]”, programname is “named”.

Precisely, the programname is terminated by either (whichever occurs first):

end of tag
nonprintable character
‘:’
‘[’
‘/’

The above definition has been taken from the FreeBSD syslogd sources.

Please note that some applications include slashes in the static part of the tag, e.g. “app/foo[1234]”. In this case, programname is “app”. If they store an absolute path name like in “/app/foo[1234]”, programname will become empty (“”). If you need to actually store slashes as part of the programname, you can use the global option:

global(parser.permitSlashInProgramName="on")

to permit this. Then, a syslogtag of “/app/foo[1234]” will result in programname being “/app/foo”. Note: this option is available starting at rsyslogd version 8.25.0.

Usage¶

template(name="example" type="list") {
    property(name="programname")
}

programname¶

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