From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 06:44:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25621 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25594 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id JAA26841; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:44:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:42:15 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Terry Lambert cc: Masahiro Sekiguchi , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errormessages In-Reply-To: <199802250618.XAA10698@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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