Bringing syslog-ng into the fold [FC6 ?]

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 17:05:58 UTC 2005


Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:

>One of the things we have to do at our sites is remove the Red
>Hat/Fedora syslog services and replace them with syslog-ng. The TCP
>part, the better message congestion issues, and the better ability to
>group logging together is really needed by larger sites. [We have
>found that the lossiness of regular syslog can get black marks on
>reviews.] A long time ago, it was proposed for inclusion around Red
>Hat Linux 6.0 but was considered too unstable and some other issues.
>
>Could it be evaluated again for either for replacing the older syslog
>system or working the syslog system so that alternatives could cover
>it with syslog-ng in extras? What issues would need to be done to help
>this along?
>
If this is a straight foward decision, proposing that as a enhancement 
by filing it against 'distribution' as a component in Fedora bugzilla 
would be enough.

regards
Rahul




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