From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 29 10:16:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04E137B407 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f9TIGTH17062 for hackers@FreeBSd.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:16:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:16:29 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: hackers@FreeBSd.org Subject: Re: syslogd and kqueue Message-ID: <20011029131629.A16899@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSd.org References: <20011026233957.A9925@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011026200436.A61058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011027043342.A18231@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011027001704.B2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011027002622.C2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011028180643.B59388@dragon.nuxi.com> <3BDCCFB2.1E5CFC49@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BDCCFB2.1E5CFC49@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:40:34PM -0800 Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:40:34PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > The _useful_ thing to do would be to roll the newsyslog > functionality into syslogd; however, as a .conf file that > is expected to be distributed over NIS, I think that doing > the syntax change is probably a bad idea... After seeing all the mess here, I'll make a recomendation. Perhaps it's time to write a whole new tool that combines syslogd and newsyslog and some other functionality all in one place, and fixes all of the issues that have been put forth here. Since it's a new tool, it can start from a clean slate, and needs no compatability features. Both can be included for a suitable transition period, and eventually syslogd could die. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message