Some time ago now I was in a meeting with a customer where I first learned of the new syslog standard, RFC5424. I say “new” because, despite it being ten years old, it was new to me. Three weeks ago I started updating my fork of sysklogd to be RFC5424 compliant. I ended up ripping out most of the old code and replacing it with fresh DNA strands from FreeBSD and NetBSD. The result is a fully RFC compliant syslogd, and a libsyslog with a replacement syslog.h header for sending RFC5424 event...
