Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 01:55 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 11278 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > >> So we decided to switch to syslog-ng for now. > > > >> On the #debian-release channel some people claimed, that syslog-ng is not a > >> drop-in replacement, while other said so. I don't know :) Please explain > >> here. Other options would be rsyslog (which Fedora is using, see > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureRsyslog) or msyslog. > > > > It is a dropin replacement with the config that the package delivers in > > Debian. > > rsyslog is also a drop in replacement, even more so, as it can > understand the syntax of sysklogd. The default rsyslog config file > /etc/rsyslog.conf is basically a copy of /etc/syslog.conf. > So if you have a custom syslog.conf, you could either copy it to > /etc/rsyslog.conf or start rsyslogd with -f /etc/syslog.conf. > > rsyslog also allows to include other config files. The default > /etc/rsyslog.conf is setup to include all files in /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf. > > This easily allows for other packages to add custom configuration very > easily. > > > Of course using syslog-ng means you can take some more advantages > > compared to the old sysklogd - like automated logrotating. > > http://ganneff.de/syslog-ng.conf is an (old) config from me for that, > > which simply keeps logs in a host/year/month/day structure. > > It also has a nice set of filters and stuff, can do tcp and not only > > udp, and lots more. > > rsyslog has all these features, too (and many more). It even offers > support for logging into MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, which only the > commercial syslog-ng branch has. > Support for these is in two separate packages rsyslog-mysql and > rsyslog-pgsql. These two packages use the dbconfig-common framework to > setup the database and automatically create config files for > /etc/rsyslog.d/, so you can get up and running really quick and hassle free. > > A real plus is also upstream, who is very responsive and active and it's > a pleasure to work with him. > > As maintainer of rsyslog, I'd really like to see rsyslog become the > default for lenny and I think it would be a very good choice. > > > Cheers, > Michael I agree with this. Additionally, Balasz Schielder (Balabit) makes people who contribute to syslog-ng sign a contributory license agreement [1], so that they can be included in syslog-ng premium, which is in my view against the whole purpose of open source. If you disagree with signing the CLA, your patch is rejected. As such, I feel that syslog-ng is not a good choice for the default syslogd in Debian. rsyslog upstream have a fairly good reputation of being cooperative and generally good to work with, at least from what i have observed. William [1] http://www.balabit.com/dl/CLA_patch.pdf
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