syslog-ng to replace syslogd

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> Hi all,
> I think syslog-ng should probably be brought into Fedora Core to
> replace syslogd.
>
> In order to achieve that goal I've been told that making a good case for
> why syslog-ng is beneficial to the distro needs to be added to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113858
>
> I'll be adding my own comments shortly, but if any of you have comments
> to that regard please add them.
>

I've added the below comment, but since I get the feeling a nice big
flamewar is coming anyway (it's been what.. 2, 3 hours since the last
one?) I'll be happy to start it.


Oh god.  Please no! The questions from my users will never ever ever end.

If you want a nicer syslog daemon, how about metalog[1] or at least
something with a config syntax that doesn't require a PhD in Physics to
understand?

[1] - http://metalog.sourceforge.net/

-n

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