Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:42:15 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Masahiro Sekiguchi <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errormessages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225094051.18366C-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199802250618.XAA10698@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > The big win here is internationalization of manuals instead of error > messages. > > This actually makes a lot of sense for encapsulated messages (like > sendmail). > > I've actually been thinking that it's about time someone built an RFC > for message formats for log messages. I was thinking "STARTED", "READY", > "SHUTDOWN", "STOPPED" would be a good start. > > Consider the case where you are trying to track a sendmail problem, and > you don't have notification of "stop", only of "start" and "event". There was a universal logging BOF at December IETF -- I'm not sure what conclusions were reached as I was at the security area session. :) I am sure that internationalization was a big issue, was was security, etc. There's probably a web page somewhere with the minutes, I would guess. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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