The meaning of field's facility

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Hi folks;
I need to know what is the impotance of field facilty? what does it represente?

Thank.

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Not much to go on there - can you give more context? :crazy_face:

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It’s a standardized syslog format field to determine which process of the machine created the message.

There is a lots of information on Internet:


http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/kiwi/help/syslog/index.html?protocol_facilities.htm
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1.1
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.2.1

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