On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I was taking a look at the different syslog output options, and I noticed > that there are a variety of different sinks > (character devices, CDCACM, RAM, etc). However, I was thinking that it would > be useful to have a network sink for > syslog, so that logs could be sent over a network interface and collected > elsewhere. This might be useful for systems > that have small amounts of physical storage but are network connected, or > have a very long up-time. > > What do you think about an implementation of syslog for network capable > devices that achieves this? Are there any big > hurdles I might not be considering (like setting up a connection, using > UDP/TCP, etc)? There would probably have to be a > decently large buffer to avoid slowing down code with blocking send calls. > > What do you think? > -- > Matteo Golin
Sound great! :-) It would be reaaaly nice to align with existing syslog implementations in this matter i.e. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?syslogd :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
