Bringing syslog-ng into the fold [FC6 ?]

[Florian La Roche]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:49:27AM -0600, 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?

Hello Stephen,

syslog-ng has shown up in Fedora Extras, so testing out that package
does certainly help. Given the long history of the current syslog
package, I am not sure if/when a good point for that will come.

greetings,

Florian La Roche