> The following should work to compile only syslogd, as per > ./configure --help, INSTALL and README. > > ./configure --disable-server --disable-clients --enable-syslogd > > What `four lines' did you use? Maybe something can be improved.
i just disabled everything i didn't want, which made up four text lines (rows?) on my monitor. if --enable-syslogd works, --disable-syslogd=no should work too (by convention), like --disable-syslogd should be substitutable with --enable-syslogd=no. using --disable-syslogd=no has the advantage that one can middle-click (Xorg quick copy/paste) the option from the configure --help output. Please show the exact command you used. Did you try the one I suggested? > what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db > dependency ;) > > Would you like to write such a program for us? would i then ask you for doing it? i'm not in this field of programming, just maintain a system. sorry. Someone has to do it, would you like to do so? > (btw., choosing -? for help and -h for hop on the syslogd > command line is not a good choice in my eyes. please rethink!) > > You will need to have a stronger argument than "I don't like it". just direct your argument against yourself and ask yourself what 'strong argument' you had for breaking with the tradition/convention. what you did is inconsistent with thousands of other command-line tools for *nix (and even for w*ndows) and thus a pain in the ass for every admin with weak memory! The `unix' tradition was to not have any help output from programs, -h was already used for different tools and -? made the most sense to us.
