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Syslog to Remote Server: Invalid facility type
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Description

When setting up Syslog configuration, "logaudit" facility keyword (facility code 13) as referred at the Facilities Table cannot be set-up as explained at the Syslog Configuration Guide

Example:

vyos@vyos# set system syslog host 192.168.0.50 facility logaudit level all

  
  
  Invalid facility type
  Value validation failed
  Set failed

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Version
1.2.5
Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible

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m1nus created this task.Jul 26 2021, 3:49 PM
pasik subscribed.Jul 28 2021, 4:02 PM
zsdc subscribed.Aug 27 2021, 5:56 PM

This is a typo in the documentation. In the real system, the facility is called security, but it is deprecated at least from the 2004 year.
The problem that I see in names is that it seems that different systems and software may use slightly different names for facilities. So, could be a good idea to do the two things:

  • check existing and add missing facility names in CLI
  • in the actual configuration transparently convert facilities to numeric representation to avoid software issues (like deprecated security facility in rsyslog).
c-po subscribed.Aug 27 2021, 7:02 PM

How does e.g. syslog-ng behave?

syncer triaged this task as Low priority.Oct 17 2021, 1:45 PM
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