From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 7 09:04:46 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA13831 for security-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 09:04:46 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA13825 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 09:04:44 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA29736; Thu, 7 Sep 95 16:04:08 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA21812; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:04:05 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:04:05 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9509071604.AA21812@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, peter@osix.com.au, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1629.810485312@critter.tfs.com> (message from Poul-Henning Kamp on Thu, 07 Sep 1995 07:48:32 -0700) Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? Sender: security-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> Actually, I have a number of times contemplated writing a >> syslog-replacement that would have a better configuration file >> and allow for automatic log rotation. Poul-Henning> I planned on doing it in tcl, then you could also Poul-Henning> take action when something happened... Do you mean have ordinary users send tcl scripts to syslog to be evaluated/executed? -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... It pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say, "What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!" -- Steven Wright