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There's syslog the protocol, syslog the API, and syslog the daemon. There are syslog daemon and protocol replacements that are much better, but retain the API
by Andys 15y ago
There's syslog the protocol, syslog the API, and syslog the daemon. There are syslog daemon and protocol replacements that are much better, but retain the API for wide-spread compatibility.
- tptacek 15y agoI think my contention would be that if you shake off the early-90s-Unixisms and adopt any modern store (forget Redis even and just "use sqlite instead of fopen"), the machinery required to do 98% of what the best syslog daemons do is trivial. The syslog infrastructure just doesn't add much... except compatibility with a very dubious ecosystem of tools.