Re: [gentoo-dev] why multilog?

"Jerry A!" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:56:57PM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> :
> : 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 :)
>
> Actually, check out http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html.  You can
> figure out how to accomplish what you're for (log sizes/rotation/etc.)
>
> As for the /var/log/syslog.d/current, just make that a symbolic link to
> /var/log/syslog.
>
> Multilog is part of a package for daemonizing programs.  However, it's
> designed to not choke and not beat up on the system like syslog.
> Likewiese, it makes every effort to ensure that no data is lost.  Oh,
> and it's much more lightweight than syslogd/klogd.  It's a good program.
>
> Having said that, I'll be honest, I don't like it.  It's a preference
> thing, not a technical issue.  I'd recommend app-admin/metalog (and not
> just because I put it in the tree).
>
> Reply to this message if you need step-by-step instructions and I'll
> post them later tonight (leaving in a coupla minutes--don't have time
> right now).
>
> : 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.
>
> Achim?

Yep, good idea, I switched back to syslog too.

achim~
>
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