On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:39, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:31:04AM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> > our documentation [1] lists syslog-ng as the "default" system logger
> > while current profiles uses metalog (except embedded, default-macos/ppc,
> > default-darwin and sparc32). What should be changed, Handbook or
> > profiles?
>
> I think we should recommend syslog-ng over metalog, both in
> documentation and in profiles, due to the fact that most software,
> howtos and tutorials expect the system log to be located in
> /var/log/messages

Isn't that more a matter of configuration than of logger. While I'm a 
syslog_ng user I'm fairly confident that metalog can write /var/log/messages 
too.

Paul

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