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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:57:26AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> > Agreed. It should be syslog-ng. If nobody objects, I'll change it in |
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> > base/virtuals. |
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> Objecting, obviously ;) |
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> I'd rather see reasons listed as to why syslog-ng is a superior |
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> default for users who (most likely) don't care, then "we lack |
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> /var/log/messages" :) |
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We've had metalog as the example log daemon in the Gentoo Handbook in the |
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past. Every time it was added, we got a nice bug about why metalog was a bad |
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default and syslog-ng should be used. |
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I'm not on the I'net right now, but if you annotate the |
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-tools.xml file you'll see a |
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bunch of reasons over the past few changes. |
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Afaik, most architectures prefer syslog-ng. |
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Wkr, |
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