On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:21:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:07:40AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > There are sometimes good reasons to log to stderr instead of syslog.
> > syslog is slow, loses messages, inflexable, and can introduce delays
> > and huge volumes of crap to the disk.  Using stderr loggers can
> > filter, or do things like rotate logs actively, etc.
> 
> OTOH, syslog makes it a lot easier to have unified systems for log rotation
> etc. -- and I don't really see what you mean by "inflexible". I'd rather have
> it all in one place than inventing a thousand new systems for (say) remote
> logging.

Yes, it does, and there's nothing wrong with having a verbose logging
sequence and process doing the equivelant of (for production) grep -v 
'(unimportant_messages)' | logger -p kern.err
 
> Of course, having both isn't bad.

No, its not.

-Peter

-- 
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.

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