On Tuesday 24 May 2005 18:21, Ken Schneider wrote:
<RANT> Another one of those "better" updates to a program (syslog) that used to be fairly easy to configure and now requires six programing classes to understand the conf syntax. This is sure to win over a hole slew of windows converts isn't it. What the f**k does this provide that is any better than plain old syslog?
syslog-ng is supposed to allow you to create/write your own filters (if you know "c" programming that is). But whether or not is does depends on whether or not you can define your own facility/level which I cannot see how. And if you can't why change something that just plain works? </RANT>
I'm with you on that one! The documentation looks pretty detailed and is probably quite complete, but using it is like learning to speak English by reading a dictionary -- lots of disconnected facts.