From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 12 7:34:53 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 5D13337B401; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:34:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B243843FDD; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:34:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA7C4387D; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Sheldon Hearn , Nik Clayton Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:25:03 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Thomas Quinot , arch@freebsd.org References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20030212095925.GA83388@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20030212103815.GH39728@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <20030212103815.GH39728@starjuice.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302121525.03156.wes@softweyr.com> 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 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:38, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2003/02/12 09:59), Nik Clayton wrote: > > > It's about that time of year again when someone points out that > > > syslogd(8) is just begging for an alternative configuration file, > > > syslog.xml. :-) > > > > > > And then it'll be time for someone to point out that such notions are > > > nothing more than fancy because we don't have XML support in the base > > > syst... > > > > > > Oh dear. > > > > GEOM. > > Surely you don't mean to suggest that libbsdxml could be used to provide > configuration files that are flexible, extensible, readable and > machine-parsable? ;-) Well, pick 2. Or maybe 3. No, 2 at best. XML is extensible (sort of, but you have to re-write the parsing code to do it) and machine- parsable. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message