On 10/13/05, Florian La Roche <laroche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:49:27AM -0600, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote: > > One of the things we have to do at our sites is remove the Red > > Hat/Fedora syslog services and replace them with syslog-ng. The TCP > > part, the better message congestion issues, and the better ability to > > group logging together is really needed by larger sites. [We have > > found that the lossiness of regular syslog can get black marks on > > reviews.] A long time ago, it was proposed for inclusion around Red > > Hat Linux 6.0 but was considered too unstable and some other issues. > > > > Could it be evaluated again for either for replacing the older syslog > > system or working the syslog system so that alternatives could cover > > it with syslog-ng in extras? What issues would need to be done to help > > this along? > > Hello Stephen, > > syslog-ng has shown up in Fedora Extras, so testing out that package > does certainly help. Given the long history of the current syslog > package, I am not sure if/when a good point for that will come. > > greetings, > > Florian La Roche > Cool. I missed that package addition, and will go test it. We have found this really helps our FISMA requirements and may help organizations that need to document for HIPAA etc that they are indeed not losing data. > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
