Bringing syslog-ng into the fold [FC6 ?]

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:05 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think no time like the present. It's not like we have to maintain
syslog compat b/t fc4 and fc5.

-sv