Hi, I use metalog on all my systems and I find it to be utterly superior to
syslog-ng under many points of view: in particular, the crispiness of the
configuration files, the possibility to alternate buffering and non buffering
and the absence of too advanced features. In general, metalog is the simple
and configurable version of a system logger, an incarnation of a KISS (keep it
simple) philosophy for this kind of software (it is - let us say - what dcron
is for UNIX cron systems).
Many people and many linux distros like and promote the KISS philosophy but
are nowadays inclining to use the heavy, overly complex, difficult to
configure syslog-ng only because metalog is unmaintained and also the very
useful novelties of 0.8-rc1 (the break config option!) have been never brought
to a tested release. There are a couple of well-known, non serious bugs and
the ability to fix them would allow to release finally 0.8 which would be
quite a perfect system logging solution.
Is anybody interested? Are the people who submitted the novelties in 0.8-rc1
still around?
I thank you in advance for your attention
Giorgio Lando
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