Re: End of hypocrisy ?
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 00:38:16 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Software As A Service, with Web 2.0
...
> suggest a Google-hosted service
Actually this is precisely the opposite of my suggestion. Using an externally
stored database as I have listed would remove the need for an external
provider, such as Google, for things like 'analytics'... and using a standards
based sql package would allow extreme detail to be stored with very
little effort. Once there exists a database of the information, there is
no reason to store that database on the host. Although there is no reason why
it couldn't remain there as well. The advantage of remote log storing and
querying would remain even for a small 2 or 3 host home network. If this was a
common GNU/Linux package, open source routers, like buffalo, could include the
ability to collect log information from hosts and email a local client if a
host log indicates compromise --- thus perhaps preventing, and/or early
detection of, problems like the Bitcoin mining botnet running on poorly
configured but also open source NAS boxes, like Synology.
Seriously, if all logging is going to be dumped into a central binary -- it
would be much more useful to dump the data into something that is logically
searchable and can be scripted easily from bash using very simple:
pgsql -c "select $foo"
statements. Systemd does this as is [almost]... but the command set to query
the data is definitely not standard, nor easily discoverable. An sql
query-able database makes much more sense. And it could be sqlite rather than
postgresql.
--Andrew
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