Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: des@ofug.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: review request for bin/11294 Message-ID: <200203240037.g2O0b7Wx064444@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpn0wydhhh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 23 Mar, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Here's a patch. To log to a remote host, make /etc/loghost a symlink
> to its name or IP address ('ln -fs 10.0.5.14 /etc/loghost').
But this implementation has drawbacks, that mine does not, IMHO:
. the configuration is system wide -- which is not neccessarily
desirable;
. logger(1) -- and any other application, which wants this
functionalitystill needs its own implementation;
Most importantly, however, your design goal (allow to specify loghost
different from localhost) is different from mine. I wanted to add
an API call to log directly to another host -- at an application's
discretion...
My API call will not even add any new bloat to the OS -- whatever is
added to the libc is removed from the logger(1) :-)
Your idea (and a similar one by Joe Abley, where an env-variable is used
instead of a symlink) can then be implemented using this same new API
call I proposed.
-mi
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