LR_DESYSLOG.IN(1)

📦 version 2.1.1, in arch rolling

💅 lr_desyslog — ok so hear me out bestie

bestie welcome to the LogReport's Lire Documentation corner of the internet, this is LR_DESYSLOG.IN(1) and she is a whole little icon for exactly one job 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

lr_desyslog — literally just strips the syslog-style header off a logfile line 🧚

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lr_desyslog program

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: lr_desyslog removes a syslog style timestamp, hostname, and program, and then prints whatever's left of what you gave it on stdin, out to stdout. that's the whole vibe. slay. 💅

so like, when it's invoked as lr_desyslog qmail, it throws away things like:

Oct 29 10:07:44 gelfand qmail:

and keeps:

972810464.240168 end msg 6161

and honestly? iconic behaviour. this is useful when processing qmail logs, which are processed by splogger. no cap, that's the whole use case 🫶

🌸 TODO 🌸

  • handle pid's in program syslog tag 🙈 (not done yet bestie, it's on the list)

⭐ VERSION ⭐

$Id: lr_desyslog.in,v 1.2 2006/07/23 13:16:32 vanbaal Exp $ 🔥

Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

Joost van Baal <joostvb@logreport.org> — thank u for ur service king 💜

fr fr that's the whole page, she's small but she's mighty 🦋

and that's a wrap bestie!! this masterpiece hit the streets as part of Lire 2.1.1, dated 2025-09-28, so go forth and strip those headers 💖✨🌈

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