Program name with full path in syslog entries

[Christian.Schmid at snb.ch]

Hello

I log messages to syslog when using sudo. If I call
sudo without path I get something like:

Oct 17 14:31:41 fortytwo sudo: chrigi : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/chrigi ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/df

If I call sudo with the full path I get the following:

Oct 17 14:31:41 fortytwo /usr/local/bin/sudo: chrigi : TTY=unknown ; 
PWD=/home/chrigi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/df

As we use syslog-ng for central logging and we log on program
name basis, the entries for sudo called with the full path will go
to
/pathtologfiles/usr/local/bin/sudo/sudo.log
instead of
/pathtologfiles/sudo/sudo.log
 
Is there an option to remove the path from the syslog entry ?
Is this a feature or a bug ?

Thanks

Regards,
Christian

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