On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:
> Ok, finally a mention of WHICH syslog. Is that most people's
> experience, a problem with syslog on Solaris 2.x? I've run mostly
> Linux boxen over the years and have had little trouble with sysklogd,
> the daemon included with Redhat installations. But
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > Syslog is unreliable.
> We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
over the network the transport is UDP, and these are not acknowldged so if
they are kost who knows?
the same really applies to message
On 12 Feb 2001, Mark Delany wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
> > > > We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
> > >
> > > I've seen the syslog daemon simply die. With no explanation. Several times
> > > on different boxes. I think this qualifies as
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
> djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in
> the new daemontools package.
Indeed. And it's pretty triv to use too. The simplest is to replace
your 'splogger qmai' with something like:
multilog t n10 s500
djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in
the new daemontools package.
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
> >
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
> >
> > Syslog is unreliable.
> >
>
> We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
I've seen the syslog daemon simply die. With no explanation. Several times
on different boxes. I think this qualifies as being unreliable.
--Ad
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> >
> > Syslog is unreliable.
> >
>
> We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
I've seen syslog dropping entries on a centralized logging host that we
use for remote boxen, about
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> Syslog is unreliable.
>
We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
Is it an implementation problem or just the way syslog works, period?
I for one am not liking having my logs spread all over machines and in
multiple directories to boot. Make
