Does Syslog really have a 1KB message limit?

Question

It seems Syslog has a 1KB message limit. Is this hardcoded into the Syslog protocol, or is this a parameter that can be set for each server?

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Answer 1

Yes, but you can increase this limit to an arbitrary length by recompiling from source.

See instructions in this blog post I found about truncated syslog messages: http://bsdpants.blogspot.com/2010/08/truncated-syslog-messages.html