Re: [Re: Bug#66535: proposal of virtual package: syslogd]
Hello.
Manoj Srivastava schrieb:
> Arthur> There should probably also be guidlines on syslog-facility
> Arthur> and the rotating and logging behavior of packages providing
> Arthur> syslogd, in order for other packages to know what they can
> Arthur> assume.
>
> Can you elucidate? The best way to determine what policy
> should say would perhaps be for the maintainers of the three logging
> daemon packages to reach an agreement based on current practice. If
> you could come up with a draft proposal, it would help a lot.
It's already rolling ...
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|Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:44:41 +0200
|To: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>, SZALAY Attila <sasa@debian.org>
|From: Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>
|Subject: proposed virtual packages: system-log-daemon and kernel-log-daemon
|
|Hello Martin and Attila.
|
|I'm currently packaging [1] msyslog [2] and have proposed
|virtual packages for system-logging-daemons in order to allow
|alternatives to sysklogd to integrate better and cleaner into
|Debian.
|
|This is how I see these packages, I'm mailing you in order to
|discuss this, so this is just what I have in mind at the moment:
|
|system-log-daemon: Packages providing something that reads
|messages from /var/log, provides /usr/sbin/syslog-facility and
|rotates it's default logs if it has any.
|
|kernel-log-daemon: Packages providing something that reads
|/proc/kmsg or uses ioctls to obtain kernel logs. Doing something
|sensible with them is optional :).
|
|I'd like to know what you think about this.
|
|[1] http://www.korn.ch/msyslog-deb/
|[2] http://www.core-sdi.com/
|
|ciao, 2ri
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No reply until now. I'll wait another two weeks (I am away from
July 17. to July 22.), then I'll file wishlist-bugs against
syslog-ng and sysklogd.
PS: Today I had my first system install on a SPARC, potato of
corse. Went really smooth, compliments to Debian generally and
the sparc people espetially for making my favorite OS work on
SPARC too!
ciao, 2ri
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