Re: replacing sysklogd (was: Oldest RC bugs affecting etch)
Hi Nathanael!
You wrote:
> 284914 -- trivial bug in klogd.
> I still say we switch to another syslogd implementation and remove
> sysklogd entirely. It's got 4 RC bugs and 99 bugs total, including 34
> patches. Effectively, it's unmaintained, but Joey hasn't orphaned it.
> It's a sloppy, screwy codebase, so I can understand if Joey doesn't want
> to fix it. I've been using syslog-ng happily for several years now,
> but metalog seems to be a reasonable alternative as well.
Well, I personally have never had much problems with sysklogd, but I
agree that syslog-ng is a lot nicer. I didn't know that it is
unmaintained upstream though.
What are other distributions using?
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