Interview: syslog-ng 2.0 developer (Linux.com)
syslog-ng is an alternative system logging tool, a replacement for the standard Unix syslogd system-event logging application. Featuring reliable logging to remote servers via the TCP network protocol, availability on many platforms and architectures, and high-level message filtering capabilities, syslog-ng is part of several Linux distributions. We discussed the highlights of last month's version 2.0 release with the developer, Balázs Scheidler."
Posted Dec 16, 2006 2:45 UTC (Sat)
by jwb (guest, #15467)
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I highly recommend the 2.0 version because 1) older versions were prone to dropping network messages under load, and 2) older versions were implemented in a kind of c++-over-cpp object tunneling system which was extremely odd. The new version uses glib and sane people can actually hack on it :)
Posted Dec 16, 2006 19:39 UTC (Sat)
by bk (guest, #25617)
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syslog-ng is pretty cool and I've been using it for years. Regular old syslog is one of those Unix horrors that just won't ever go away, like creat() and signals, but having syslog-ng around has been a major improvement.Interview: syslog-ng 2.0 developer (Linux.com)
Any incompatibilities with 1.6.x syslog-ng.conf syntax, or is 2.0 a safe drop-in replacement? I spent quite some time writing my config file and it was long enough ago that I don't quite remember all the ins and outs of hacking it...
Interview: syslog-ng 2.0 developer (Linux.com)