Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:12:53 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c Message-ID: <20060307201253.GG62485@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <p0623091cc0339293dcf9@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200603061036.k26AaXgt047115@repoman.freebsd.org> <200603061208.11685.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060307081419.GE56506@garage.freebsd.pl> <p0623091bc03385a0d409@[128.113.24.47]> <20060307193626.GD62485@garage.freebsd.pl> <p0623091cc0339293dcf9@[128.113.24.47]>
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--eMnpOGXCMazMAbfp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:02:54PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: +> At 8:36 PM +0100 3/7/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> > +> >Most usefull will be to have one configuration file for syslogd +> >and newsyslog, eg.: +> > +> >*.* /var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J +> >security.* /var/log/security 600 10 100 * JC +> > +> >And teach syslogd to create configuration files with proper +> >owner+permission on start. +>=20 +> Sigh. Except then you have the "syslog" config file with +> information about log files that syslog has nothing to do +> with (such as log files written to by apache, etc). [...] Right... +> In any case, I'll bow out at this point saying that the +> update to syslogd is small enough that I do not object to +> it. All I wanted to say was that it strikes me as the +> wrong solution. If we add an option to syslogd so it will +> create it's own log files, then it would be reasonable to +> add a similar option to every other program that writes +> log files. I don't understand why we'd want to go down +> that path. Actually most of the programms that use their own log files create those log files by default... --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --eMnpOGXCMazMAbfp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDelFForvXbEpPzQRAnxlAJ9yP5ouzvMw+XzNPK3WzDh6WANs2gCdE51G Ve1Cwf8yPxKouOh0J9WsU7c= =UxS6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eMnpOGXCMazMAbfp--
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