Set the facility field

It is possible to set the facility field with the set-facility() rewrite function. When set, the set-facility() rewrite function will only rewrite the ${PRIORITY} field in the message to the first parameter value specified in the function.

Declaration

log {
    source { system(); };
    if (program("postfix")) {
      rewrite { set-facility("mail"); };
    };
    destination { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };
    flags(flow-control);
};

Parameters

The set-facility() rewrite function has a single, mandatory parameter that can be defined as follows:

set-facility( "parameter1" );

Accepted values

The set-facility() rewrite function accepts the following numeric strings and named values:

Example usage for the set-facility() rewrite function

The following two set-facility() examples are equivalent:

rewrite {
  set-facility("security");
  set-facility("13");
  };