syslogfacility-text

Returns the textual syslog facility defined in RFC 5424 Table 1.

This property belongs to the Message Properties group.

Name:

syslogfacility-text

Category:

Message Properties

Type:

string

Description

Returns the human-readable name of the syslog facility (such as daemon or local4). The names follow the RFC 3164 and RFC 5424 mappings and correspond directly to the numeric property syslogfacility. When the input does not supply a syslog header, rsyslog emits the configured or inferred facility name for the message instead.

Usage

template(name="example" type="list") {
    property(name="syslogfacility-text")
}

Notes

  • Expect the canonical names kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, authpriv, ftp, system-reserved slots, and local0..``local7``.

  • Some systems expose small spelling differences; compare strings carefully if you expect portable configurations.

  • Facility selection is independent from severity, but both values combine into PRI (PRI = facility * 8 + severity).

See also

See rsyslog Properties for the category overview.

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