Hi Craig! Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:39:01PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> jffnms currently has a >> Suggests: syslog-ng >> There seems nothing syslog-ng specific in this package. > There is documentation in JFFNMS on how to use syslog-ng to export log > file messages into the JFFNMS database.
Thanks for the clarification. If jffnms has indeed syslog-ng specific functionality, then the current Suggests is correct of course. I thought, jffnms uses the standard syslog() interface for logging messages. If that's not the case, then indeed a | system-log-daemon alternative might be counter-productive. Could you explain a little, how jffnms uses syslog-ng (from your description it sounds the other way around: syslog-ng using jffnms as storage backend) > >> Suggests: rsyslog | system-log-daemon > Remember it is a suggest, not a dependency. Unless there is a way of > getting rsyslog to work with JFFNMS database files then using that > suggestion is actually making things worse, as I would be suggesting a > package that is completely useles for JFFNMS. > > Now rsyslog may well be able to log to mysql or pgsql databases, either > directly or indirectly. In that case with a few notes I can add it in. Indeed, rsyslog can log into mysql and psql databases. As I haven't quite understood yet, how the interaction between jffnms and syslog-ng is, I'm not yet sure if that can be applied to rsyslog or not. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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