Syslog Helpers¶ ↑

This aims to make working with syslog message content a little bit easier.

gem install syslog_helpers

require 'syslog_helpers'

This provides helpers to assist in translatng syslog priority codes (per RFC3164 www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt).

You can get a hash of all possible severities

SyslogHelpers::Priority.severities
=> {5=>"notice", 0=>"emerg", 6=>"info", 1=>"alert", 7=>"debug", 2=>"crit", 3=>"err", 4=>"warning"}

And the same for all possible facilities

SyslogHelpers::Priority.severities
=> {16=>"local0", 5=>"syslog", 22=>"local6", 11=>"ftp", 0=>"kern", 17=>"local1", 6=>"lpr", 23=>"local7", 12=>"ntp", 1=>"user", 18=>"local2", 7=>"news", 13=>"audit", 2=>"mail", 19=>"local3", 8=>"uucp", 14=>"alert", 3=>"daemon", 20=>"local4", 9=>"cron", 15=>"clock", 4=>"auth", 21=>"local5", 10=>"authpriv"}

You can also get a hash of the associated data for a specific priority

SyslogHelpers::Priority.data_for_priority(150)
=> {"facility"=>"local2", "severity"=>"info"}

If you just want the severity, you can also use

SyslogHelpers::Priority.severity_for_priority(150)
=> "info"

And the same goes for just grabbing the facility

SyslogHelpers::Priority.facility_for_priority(150)
=> "local2"

To grab every possible combination, you can use

SyslogHelpers::Priority.priority_map
=> { 0 => { 'facility' => 'kern', 'severity' => 'emerg'}, ...} # truncated

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix (with tests) in a topic branch.

• Send a pull request and I’ll get it integrated.

Copyright © 2010 Thomas Bishop. See LICENSE for details.