[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: So the next thing i could try is metalog. Does it have a nice default config? I think so, but I did modify it to better suit my needs. It doesn't need logrotate, which IMHO is a big plus, and I find its filters much easier to set up than syslog-ng's. I am curious, though:

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Galevsky
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Syslog-ng Is that kind of conf (described in Quick Start section) far away from what you are looking for ? Gal' 2007/5/30, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated default setting. Okay, in that case, I'll say that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Sven Köhler: It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are the default is to send most everything to messages Yes, that's the default. And actually, i don't want to configure all my machines. I would prefer a more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the kashani: darren kirby wrote: quoth the Sven Köhler: It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are the default is to send most everything to messages Yes, that's the default. And actually, i don't want to