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Re: Syslog facility (Side Note)
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: Syslog facility (Side Note) |
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Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:45:43 +0200 (MEST) |
Is this a commercial product? That would make it rather
inapplicable. But if it were easy to support as an alternative, I'd be willing.
M
On 26 Sep, Wayne Sweatt wrote:
> As a side note:
> Consider moving over to syslog-ng.
> Syslogd is crippled trash compared to the power and flexibility of
> syslog-ng.
> WE use it, and it automatically creates our <hostname>.log files within
> automatically created <month-year> directories.
> automatic creation of log files is an option, and only one of hundreds of
> advantages of syslog-ng. TCP logging/encryption is possible too.
> It rocks! http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/
> I'm not advertising for anyone - I just love it.
>
>
> Wayne Sweatt
> LANL SCC UNIX Team
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+sweatt=lanl.gov@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+sweatt=lanl.gov@gnu.org] On Behalf Of John
> Sechrest
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:29 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Syslog facility
>
>
>
>
> As you are doing specific debugging, I think it would be
> valuable to be able to turn on and off different levels of
> logging at different spots.
>
> Certainly choosing where to syslog to is a good thing.
> But this should be adjustable at different points.
>
> As we deploy our web cluster, we are finding that syslog is
> a key bottleneck in system performance.
>
> It may be worth looking at how syslog effects performance.
>
> If you have 5000 machines all running cfengine, all
> syslogging to the same server at the same time,
> I bet things get slow
>
>
>
>
> Chip Seraphine <chip@trdlnk.com> writes:
>
> % I was imagining something in the control: section something like: %
> % control:
> % SyslogFacility = ( local1 )
> %
> % ...and then everything that goes to syslog would dump to local1. %
> % Priority, obviously, depends on the event being logged. Personally, I
> % would like the informational messages to go to .info (or .debug) instead
> % of always to .notice; it would make log analysis easier.... %
> % Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> % > A while ago, it was suggested to add the possibility to set the % >
> syslog "facility" option from the cfagent config file. % >
> % > I'd like to ask folks what kind of settings are desirable. % > How do
> you think this should look? % >
> % > Thanks for feedback
> % > Mark
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- Syslog facility, Mark . Burgess, 2003/09/26
- Re: Syslog facility, Jeff Wasilko, 2003/09/26
- Re: Syslog facility, Chip Seraphine, 2003/09/26
- Re: Syslog facility, John Sechrest, 2003/09/26
- Re: Syslog facility, Chip Seraphine, 2003/09/26
- RE: Syslog facility (Side Note), Wayne Sweatt, 2003/09/27
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note),
Mark . Burgess <=
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note), warren, 2003/09/27
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note), Systems Administrator, 2003/09/28
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note), Andrew Stribblehill, 2003/09/29
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note), Chip Seraphine, 2003/09/29
- Re: Syslog facility (Side Note), Mark Burgess, 2003/09/29
Re: Syslog facility, Frank Smith, 2003/09/26