Re: [PATCH] Logging to syslog

it doesn't hurt really but the same argument apply to any specification. Do we need to be correct in implementing specs?
we have to use standard and don't try to violate it.

I'm -0 for facility config but not blocking. We have to vote for this change.

Thanks,
Alexander Malysh

Am 30.11.2010 um 15:52 schrieb Alejandro Guerrieri:

> Does it hurt to be able to change it? Really?
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> I'm all for correctness, but extra flexibility is usually welcomed imho.
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> On 30/11/2010, at 15:26, Alexander Malysh wrote:
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>> I mean, we should not allow to change syslog-facility because it's standard to use daemon.
>> and most modern syslog daemons allow you match program name and some of then even regex match.
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>> Thanks,
>> Alexander Malysh
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>> Am 30.11.2010 um 14:58 schrieb Stipe Tolj:
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>>> Am 30.11.2010 14:45, schrieb Alejandro Guerrieri:
>>>> That's extremely unflexible imho. If you want to get kannel to log alone without being cluttered with other daemon's logs, you're out of luck.
>>>> 
>>>> In our case, we'd like to use it for remote logging, so we'd use one of the "user" facilities to get kannel and _only_ kannel on it, directed to kannel-only log files.
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>>>> I don't see the problem on allowing the extra flexibility. It's definitely useful for our scenario at least.
>>> 
>>> yep, agree... we keep the default as Alexander suggest as 'LOG_DAEMON' facility,
>>> but provide the capabilities to extend what we want. Right?
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>>> Stipe
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