Re: syslogd -h option

Jose Nazario <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

> I'd like to know if you find the -h option of stock syslogd (or better 
> said its absence) an important feature of sysklogd. This option enables 
> syslogd to send remotely-received message to other remote machines. It's 
> absence causes syslogd NOT to forward such messages to remote hosts.

i don't run sysklogd, so take this as you may.

sounds like a neat feature but the implementation may be a bit goofy and 
non-intuitive. that's all i would change about it, but then you could be 
introducing even more confusion ...

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