On Mar 22, 2010, at 09:40 , Arnold Nipper wrote: > On 22.03.2010 08:41 Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote > >> would it be possible to let bird6 log with the bird6 prefix to syslog >> instead of bird? This would make debugging a little easier, as we run >> bird and bird6 on the same machine, and it's not too easy to >> determine which bird is logging what. I guess this would be trivial >> to accomplish without looking at the sources. >> > > I do > > log "/var/log/bird/bird.log" all; > > in bird.conf and > > log "/var/log/bird/bird6.log" all; > > in bird6.conf. Thus I have everything in one file. Imho much neater than > using syslog. Of course ymmv
I like syslog, because I'd like to parse all that stuff and provide the logged information to our users (I can attach a pipe to syslog-ng), I'd also like to log it remotely to our centralized syslog-servers. So yes, I do prefer syslog. > Arnold > -- > Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany > email: arn...@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 9259 299 > mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333 > -- www.vix.at | www.aco.net w...@univie.ac.at | WH844-RIPE Vienna University Computer Center Tel: +43 1 4277-14031 | Fax: -9140