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Re: new policy topic --- syslog() [was Re: syslog facilities]



On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:

> Sure, but I think we could keep our thoughts at the level of "what would 
> you think is reasonable out of the box".  There's a lot of generality; 
> the baseline and de facto "policy" is what ships w/ sysklogd.

AFAIR sysklogd doesn't have any suggestions about what LOG_LOCAL[0-7] are
used for.  You mean the unified syslog policy de facto?

> Well, yes, I agree, the locally-reserved facility issue is the first 
> one to solve.

Yes.  I think LOG_LOCAL[0-7] should be local and entirely available to the
local sysadmin (according to Avery).

>  local2		ppp subsystem
>  local5		fax subsystem
>  local0,1,3,4,5,6,7	hands off (I don't know what's going into local0 ---
> you seem to be capturing it.)

Qpopper 2.2 (both in bo and hamm, as far as I can see the source packages)
logs through facility LOG_LOCAL0. 

> .....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>

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