From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 29 10:50: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2F937B405 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0TIo2Z43038; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:50:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201291850.g0TIo2Z43038@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: bin/32420: syslogd accumulates "repeated" messages when piping to programs when the program may want to take immediate action Reply-To: Archie Cobbs Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/32420; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Archie Cobbs To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/32420: syslogd accumulates "repeated" messages when piping to programs when the program may want to take immediate action Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:44:04 -0800 (PST) Sheldon Hearn writes: > > Here's a candidate patch. > > Hi Archie, > > Sorry to come in late like this, but you moved pretty quickly on this > one. :-) > > Your patch provides an all or nothing solution. What about systems that > have syslogd pipe recipients, some of which are programmed to deal with > aggregated messages and some of which are not? > > Wouldn't it be better to extend the ssylog.conf language so that the > operator can choose _which_ pipe recipients should receive unaggregated > messages? Yes :-) __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message