From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 11 23:11: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BA237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9AF43F93 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A24FB51971; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:40:54 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:40:54 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <20030212071054.GA32298@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302112310.h1BNAUBS019097@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200302120632.36583.wes@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302120632.36583.wes@softweyr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at 6:32:36 +0000, Wes Peters wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 23:10, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> In article <200302111430.03156.wes@softweyr.com> you write: >>> Excellent. I have another simple change to syslog I want to cast before >>> the audience for consideration. >> >> I have had near the bottom of the CFT pile for some time now a project >> to do the following (which your example is just crying out for): >> >> 1) Integrate syslogd and newsyslog. >> 2) Replace syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf with a new configuration file >> that contains complete descriptions of log sources and destinations. >> >> As a part of (2) I have been thinking at very low priority about how >> to represent the new configuration file, and I've come to the >> conclusion that XML is probably the best answer. > > There was a time I would have agreed with you, but that time has > passed. SGML-ish languages have such tortured syntax and are such > an abomination on the eyes they should never be exposed to human > eyes. Amen. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+SfN+IubykFB6QiMRArl4AJ4jjRKkaiisMRZPTmBEUnQuFRyG0gCgtEYD 02zxEsNUqr3vOanlulUYYYU= =cRLD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message