syslog-ng to replace syslogd
Russell Coker
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Sat Aug 21 11:30:09 UTC 2004
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:49, Iago Rubio <iago.rubio at hispalinux.es> wrote:
> ITOH it's buffered architecture make it really bad for developers or
> kernel debuggers as log messages does not arise instantly, but when the
> buffer is big enought to write it out (the buffering can be disabled).
How is this different from the regular syslogd?
I have configured lots of machines with the "-" option on all log files to use
buffering and reduce IO load. I haven't found any great problems with that,
often a kernel bug will break even non-buffered disk IO...
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