LuaLogging
A simple API to use logging features in Lua.

## Remote syslog appender

This appender can be used to send syslog formatted log requests to a remote syslog server. This appender relies on LuaSocket to do its job. Optionally Copas can be used for async sending of log messages over TCP.

If you want to log to the local syslog daemon, then please use luasyslog.

The LuaLogging log-levels will be mapped to the syslog levels by their name, where `logging.FATAL` maps to syslog `ALERT`. Since LuaLogging only has 5 levels, the syslog levels `EMERG`, `CRIT`, and `NOTICE` remain unused.

    function logging.rsyslog {
        hostname = string,
        [port = number,]
        [protocol = "udp" | "tcp",]
        [rfc = "rfc5424" | "rfc3164",]
        [maxsize = number,]
        [facility = facility-constant,]
        [ident = string,]
        [procid = string,]
        [msgid = string,]

        [logPattern = string,]
        [logPatterns = {
          [logging.DEBUG = string,]
          [logging.INFO  = string,]
          [logging.WARN  = string,]
          [logging.ERROR = string,]
          [logging.FATAL = string,]
        },]
        [logLevel = log-level-constant,]
    }

- `hostname`:
  Hostname can be an IP address or a host name of the server where the log message will be sent.
- `port`:
  The port must be an integer number in the range [1..64K). The default is `514`.
- `protocol`:
  The network protocol to use, either `"udp"` or `"tcp"`. The default is `"tcp"`.
  Note: TCP sending is a blocking operation. For non-blocking use Copas is supported, see the example below.
- `rfc`:
  The message format. 2 options:
  - for the old BSD style use `"rfc3164"` (the default)
  - for the IETF standard use `"rfc5424"`.
- `maxsize`:
  The maximum message size. Longer messages will be truncated. The minimum value is 480. The defaults are 1024 for `"rfc3164"`, and 2048 for `"rfc5424"`.
- `facility`:
  The syslog facility to use, use one of the constants. The default value is the "user" facility.

        rsyslog.FACILITY_KERN
        rsyslog.FACILITY_USER
        rsyslog.FACILITY_MAIL
        rsyslog.FACILITY_DAEMON
        rsyslog.FACILITY_AUTH
        rsyslog.FACILITY_SYSLOG
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LPR
        rsyslog.FACILITY_NEWS
        rsyslog.FACILITY_UUCP
        rsyslog.FACILITY_CRON
        rsyslog.FACILITY_AUTHPRIV
        rsyslog.FACILITY_FTP
        rsyslog.FACILITY_NTP
        rsyslog.FACILITY_SECURITY
        rsyslog.FACILITY_CONSOLE
        rsyslog.FACILITY_NETINFO
        rsyslog.FACILITY_REMOTEAUTH
        rsyslog.FACILITY_INSTALL
        rsyslog.FACILITY_RAS
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL0
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL1
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL2
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL3
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL4
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL5
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL6
        rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL7

- `ident`:
  The value for the APP-NAME field (rfc5424, called TAG field in rfc3164). Default value is `"lua"`.
- `procid`:
  The process id value (only applicable for rfc5424 format). Default value is `"-"` (absent).
- `msgid`:
  The message id value (only applicable for rfc5424 format). Default value is `"-"` (absent).
- `logPattern`:
  This value will be used as the default value for each log-level that was omitted in `logPatterns`, this defaults to `"%message"`. The default pattern deviates from standard LuaLogging defaults since those do not make sense for syslog.
- `logPatterns`:
  A table with logPattern strings indexed by the log-levels. A logPattern specifies how the message is written.
  If this parameter is omitted, a patterns table will be created with the parameter `logPattern` as the default value for each log-level.
- `logLevel`:
  The initial log-level to set for the created logger.

## Example

    local rsyslog = require "logging.rsyslog"

    rsyslog.copas() -- switch to using non-blocking Copas sockets

    local logger = rsyslog {
      hostname = "syslog.mycompany.com",
      port = 514,
      protocol = "tcp",
      rfc = "rfc5424",
      maxsize = 8000,
      facility = rsyslog.FACILITY_LOCAL2,
      ident = "my_lua_app",
      procid = "socket_mod",
      logPattern = "%message %source",
    }

    copas.loop(function()
      logger:info("logging.rsyslog test")
      logger:debug("debugging...")
      logger:error("error!")

      -- destroy to ensure threads are shutdown (only for Copas)
      logger:destroy()
    end)