Bug#167437: ITP: metalog -- Modern login daemon

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Sebastien J. Gross wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-02
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : metalog
>   Version         : 0.7beta 
>   Upstream Author : Frank Denis "Jedi/Sector One" <j@pureftpd.org>
> * URL             : http://metalog.sourceforge.net
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Modern login daemon
> 
>  Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged
>  messages can be dispatched according to their facility, urgency,
>  program name and/or Perl-compatible regular expressions. Log files
>  can be automatically rotated when they exceed a certain size or
>  age. External shell scripts (e.g., mail) can be launched when
>  specific patterns are found.  Metalog is easier to configure than
>  syslogd and syslog-ng, accepts unlimited number of rules and has
>  (switchable) memory bufferization for maximal performance.

Is that the thing they use on Gentoo that forces you to killall -HUP
metalog every time you want to look at current logs?

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