[gentoo-dev] why multilog?

[Bruce A. Locke]

I've been playing around with the daemon tools package recently. 
Supervise is nice and would be handy in a server setting but I can't
figure out why anyone would want multilog over a syslog or syslog
replacement.  The resulting log files have to be filtered to be readable,
they are _not_ being put into /var/log with the syslog.d stuff, etc, the
filenames are not very human readable, there are multiple processes
involved (including the gluelog hack).  Seems like I'm loosing ease of
use, the ability to forward logs, a standard log location, etc in exchange
for a poorly documented monstrocity :)  What is the advantages of
multilog?  Perhaps I'm missing something :)

Would it be possible to get a syslog USE keyword or equiv and have the
supervise run scripts we create have support for it?  That way if the use
keyword is set then people can use syslog or a syslog replacement like
syslog-ng and people who happen to like multilog can continue using it.

Just a thought... any comments?

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Bruce A. Locke
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