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man: note that journal does not validate syslog fields

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Jan Synacek 2019-05-14 10:45:08 +02:00 committed by Lennart Poettering
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usually derived from glibc's
<varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname> variable, see
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para>
<para>Note that the journal service does not validate the values of any structured
journal fields whose name is not prefixed with an underscore, and this includes any
syslog related fields such as these. Hence, applications that supply a facility, PID,
or log level are expected to do so properly formatted, i.e. as numeric integers formatted
as decimal strings.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>