From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 09:32:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFC31065670 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 09:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E426C8FC0A for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 09:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 760AB2218A77; Sat, 3 May 2008 19:07:24 +1000 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <481C2B4C00011DBCED4742@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFBA21B240D; Sat, 3 May 2008 19:07:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90732218A64; Sat, 3 May 2008 19:07:23 +1000 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 89A01318; Sat, 3 May 2008 19:07:23 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:07:23 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Anthony Pankov Message-ID: <20080503090723.GA3159@k7.mavetju> References: <481B7ED4.3020208@mschuette.name> <1723583765.20080503123027@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1723583765.20080503123027@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Martin Sch?tte Subject: Re: Improving Syslog X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 09:32:21 -0000 On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:30:27PM +0400, Anthony Pankov wrote: > It is not pleasant to me that most comprehensible unix subsystem - > syslog - will grow to multipurpose monster. > > More pleasant to here about careful redesign of syslogd that make > available various plugins|additional daemons each of which adds > well-defined functionality. > > I dislike many features living in one binary file. Especially when > this binary will do one thing for me - write messages to file. > > Sorry, but when i imagine one more software to scrub from cool > features i become more sad. Even if the voices are opposing it, we can always make a port out of it so that the people who are interested in it can use it :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/