Thanks for the link, that post makes a lot of sense. I interpreted this discussion as moving towards adding alert functionality to the rsyslogd core - but your stance of keeping the rsyslogd core lean and efficient while plugins provide a full suite of event handling processes is reassuring.
I'm looking forward to seeing where you take this plugin architecture. -HKS On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Rainer Gerhards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not a silly one ;) And it is coming up every now and then. The > last time it came up, I was smart enough to write a blogpost: > http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/03/on-rsyslog-design-philosophy-plugins.ht > ml > > In short, and to this questions: there are different schools of thought. > If you think about a plain ole syslogd shuffling data to disk files, you > do not need that. My vision of the syslogd (actually the "event logging > and alerting") subsystem is much broader. IMHO, it should support > anything that is needed to gather, process and persistently store > events. Also note that I say "events" for a reason - syslog messages are > just a subset of the potential set of events. > > Rainer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (private) HKS >> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:25 PM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Alert when multiple repeated lines are found >> >> This may be a silly question, but is the syslog daemon the proper >> place for something like this? >> >> -HKS >> >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Julian Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Roger that Rainer. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Julian >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Rainer Gerhards >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> OK, that greatly simplifies things. Actually, it now boils down to >> >> "execute an action only on the n-the time the filter evaluates to >> true". >> >> I think this is quite easy to implement, but I must verify that... >> >> >> >> Rainer >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
