I am looking at bunch of syslog messages written by dhcpd. I want to write a quick parser that can deconstruct the message into its component parts, but I don't know what the various parts mean. I assume this is documented somewhere, but my simple queries (like dhcpd syslog message format) on Google have failed to turn up any useful documentation.
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Why parse the log files? What you really want to read is the leases file. That's where all the useful information is, and its format is very machine-readable.
I experienced the same agony just like you. I seached on Google for several hours but no result. Finally, I found in the "man in.dhcpd", at the part of "-l syslog_local_facility", there is a format description for the log file.
dhcpd is pretty sparsely documented in general - I've never seen docs on the logging format.
I think the source is your best hope.