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Subject: Re: multilog, was: qmail, from bugtraq
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 08:07:12 CST

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:

> Cyclog has been replaced by multilog in the current daemontools
> release.

ah!
 
> Syslog is a disaster. It is inefficient, unreliable, insecure,
> imprecise, and has no mechanism for limiting log size.

Welcome to the real world.

Right now several people are working on an RFC draft for logging system
messages. Problems address logging via TCP instead of UDP, log tampering
etc. If I could dig up the URL, I'd post it here. Damn bookmarks.

The people from syslog-ng and core-sdi.com are working on it.

Since I guess Wietse has correctly encapsulated all calls to syslog(),
openlog() and closelog(), you can surely easily add multilog to postfix.

Gotta have a look myself, since I agree that syslog sucks. 

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
   --Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977