On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 23:18:13 +0200, Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de> wrote: > Very bad idea because the configuration file syntax is not compatible > with the Unix standard. Doing this would instantly kill Debian in > heterogenous environments. (Yes people could install sysklogd instead, > but people are lazy...) sysklogd's config file syntax is simple enough(and syslog-ng's is complex enough) that I think writing a sysklogd -> syslog-ng config-file converter would be relatively trivial. (I would like to point out that if distributions[including Debian] refused to change "standard" software because the config file format of the new utils is different than the old one, then we probably wouldn't have anywhere near as nice a distribution ;) Anyways, syslog-ng *is* sysklogd compatible, as far as applications are concerned. So if an admin thought "Jessus, how the hell am I supposed to configure this thing? I don't have time for that!", and 'apt-get install sysklogd' would solve the problem. I am fairly ambivalent when it comes to what is the "default"(it's trivial enough to switch), I just wanted to put in my two cents ;) -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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