Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:26:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errormessages Message-ID: <199802251726.KAA09141@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225094051.18366C-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> from "Robert Watson" at Feb 25, 98 09:42:15 am
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> > The big win here is internationalization of manuals instead of error > > messages. > > > > This actually makes a lot of sense for encapsulated messages (like > > sendmail). > > > > I've actually been thinking that it's about time someone built an RFC > > for message formats for log messages. I was thinking "STARTED", "READY", > > "SHUTDOWN", "STOPPED" would be a good start. > > > > Consider the case where you are trying to track a sendmail problem, and > > you don't have notification of "stop", only of "start" and "event". > > There was a universal logging BOF at December IETF -- I'm not sure what > conclusions were reached as I was at the security area session. :) I am > sure that internationalization was a big issue, was was security, etc. > There's probably a web page somewhere with the minutes, I would guess. Thanks; I'm going looking now. The main thing I was concerned with was that there is only implicit startup or shutdown or availability information. I wanted keywords (probably encoded as an 8 bit manifest constant, actually) so that I could have agent-based log monitoring. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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