Re: Syslog facility (Side Note)

[Mark . Burgess]

Is this a commercial product? That would make it rather
inapplicable. But if it were easy to support as an alternative, I'd be willing.

M

On 26 Sep, Wayne Sweatt wrote:
> As a side note:
> Consider moving over to syslog-ng.
> Syslogd is crippled trash compared to the power and flexibility of
> syslog-ng.
> WE use it, and it automatically creates our <hostname>.log files within
> automatically created <month-year> directories.
> automatic creation of log files is an option, and only one of hundreds of
> advantages of syslog-ng. TCP logging/encryption is possible too.
> It rocks!   http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/
> I'm not advertising for anyone - I just love it.
> 
> 
>  Wayne Sweatt
>  LANL SCC UNIX Team 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+sweatt=lanl.gov@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+sweatt=lanl.gov@gnu.org] On Behalf Of John
> Sechrest
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:29 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Syslog facility 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As you are doing specific debugging, I think it would be 
> valuable to be able to turn on and off different levels of 
> logging at different spots. 
> 
> Certainly choosing where to syslog to is a good thing. 
> But this should be adjustable at different points.
> 
> As we deploy our web cluster, we are finding that syslog is 
> a key bottleneck in system performance. 
> 
> It may be worth looking at how syslog effects performance.
> 
> If you have 5000 machines all running cfengine, all 
> syslogging to the same server at the same time,
> I bet things get slow
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chip Seraphine <chip@trdlnk.com> writes:
> 
>  % I was imagining something in the control: section something like:  % 
>  % control:
>  %    SyslogFacility = ( local1 )
>  % 
>  % ...and then everything that goes to syslog would dump to local1.  % 
>  % Priority, obviously, depends on the event being logged.  Personally, I 
>  % would like the informational messages to go to .info (or .debug) instead 
>  % of always to .notice; it would make log analysis easier....  % 
>  % Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
>  % > A while ago, it was suggested to add the possibility to set the  % >
> syslog "facility" option from the cfagent config file.  % > 
>  % > I'd like to ask folks what kind of settings are desirable.  % > How do
> you think this should look?  % > 
>  % > Thanks for feedback
>  % > Mark
>  % > 
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