SYSLOGD-SIMPLE(1p)

✨ SYSLOGD-SIMPLE(1p) ✨

okay so bestie, this is SYSLOGD-SIMPLE from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section — a lil' syslog server that just... vibes and listens. 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SYSLOGD-SIMPLE — Simple Syslog Server. that's it, that's the name, she's simple and she knows it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

syslod-simple [options]

(yes the synopsis spells it syslod-simple and the title spells it SYSLOGD-SIMPLE — no we are NOT fixing it, it's canon, iykyk 🫶)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

she sits there and listens for Syslog messages, then logs them to your console and optionally to a file. she tries to decode stuff according to the RFC 3164 message format, which is the classic old-school syslog vibe ✨

the Syslog columns she gives you are, in order:

Source IP Address
Source UDP port
Facility
Severity
Timestamp (or 0 if not matched)
Hostname  (or 0 if not matched)
Message

ngl that 0 if not matched thing is doing so much heavy lifting — if she can't find a timestamp or a hostname, you're just getting a literal 0 in that slot. no cap. 😭

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -4 — force IPv4. old reliable, the IPv4 of it all 🌈
• -6 — force IPv6. and listen, this one overrides -4, she said what she said 👑
• -d <dir> / --directory — the output file directory. DEFAULT: (or not specified) [Current]. so if you don't say anything, she's staying right where she is, in the current directory, main character energy 🎀
• -i # / --interface — the UDP Port to listen on. DEFAULT: (or not specified) 514. the classic port, she's not trying to be different 💖
• -l / --list — output list format. DEFAULT: (or not specified) Line. so by default you get line format, but flip this and it's giving... a list ✨
• -t / --time — print time in human-readable yyyymmddhhmmss format. DEFAULT: (or not specified) Unix epoch. so raw seconds by default, or cute readable digits if you say so 🕐
• -w — log to "syslogd.log". one w, one file, simple as 🍓
• -w -w — log by facility in "<facility>.log". stack it, bestie, now every facility gets her own lil file 🧚
• -w -w -w — log by hostname in "<host>.log". three ws deep and now it's sorted by hostname, absolutely unhinged, absolutely iconic 💀

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💜 LICENSE 💜

this software is released under the same terms as Perl itself. and if you don't know what that means... she's telling you to go visit <http://perl.com/>. respectfully. 🙈

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Copyright (C) Michael Vincent 2010

<http://www.VinsWorld.com>

All rights reserved

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and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by perl v5.34.0 on 2022-06-30, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation era of the internet. slay, stay logged, and don't forget your third -w 💖🦋✨