On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:43:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with > > the same thought in mind - that someone will read them - but that is > > also not necessarily true. But I would not want to see us discarding > > syslog, either. > > We have a range of utilities that perform useful syslog parsing. The > fact that most of them then seem to pass that output to sendmail leaves > me a little less convinced that anyone pays the slightest bit of > attention to them. > > More realistically, we install syslog because it gives us debug > information that we (as developers) wouldn't otherwise be able to get.
Maybe that's why you do it - but I don't. And we have a lot of utilities that parse and handle logs and send proper notifications on events we need to worry about. And the first person who mentions snmptrap events gets slapped. :) -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
