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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:56:57PM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote: |
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: I've been playing around with the daemon tools package recently. |
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: Supervise is nice and would be handy in a server setting but I can't |
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: figure out why anyone would want multilog over a syslog or syslog |
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: replacement. The resulting log files have to be filtered to be readable, |
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: they are _not_ being put into /var/log with the syslog.d stuff, etc, the |
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: filenames are not very human readable, there are multiple processes |
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: involved (including the gluelog hack). Seems like I'm loosing ease of |
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: use, the ability to forward logs, a standard log location, etc in exchange |
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: for a poorly documented monstrocity :) What is the advantages of |
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: multilog? Perhaps I'm missing something :) |
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Actually, check out http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html. You can |
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figure out how to accomplish what you're for (log sizes/rotation/etc.) |
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As for the /var/log/syslog.d/current, just make that a symbolic link to |
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/var/log/syslog. |
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Multilog is part of a package for daemonizing programs. However, it's |
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designed to not choke and not beat up on the system like syslog. |
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Likewiese, it makes every effort to ensure that no data is lost. Oh, |
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and it's much more lightweight than syslogd/klogd. It's a good program. |
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Having said that, I'll be honest, I don't like it. It's a preference |
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thing, not a technical issue. I'd recommend app-admin/metalog (and not |
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just because I put it in the tree). |
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Reply to this message if you need step-by-step instructions and I'll |
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post them later tonight (leaving in a coupla minutes--don't have time |
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right now). |
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: Would it be possible to get a syslog USE keyword or equiv and have the |
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: supervise run scripts we create have support for it? That way if the use |
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: keyword is set then people can use syslog or a syslog replacement like |
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: syslog-ng and people who happen to like multilog can continue using it. |
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Achim? |
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--Jerry |
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name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important |
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|| than that! |