On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 07:37, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > The mainstream choices (disregarding journald) in 2018 are rsyslog and > syslog-ng, period. A case could be made for either. I _think_ > rsyslog remains more common. I've personally only encountered > syslog-ng in embedded logging appliances manufactured by Hungarian firm > Balabit, which also is the primary code maintainer for the open source > codebase, offering an enhanced proprietary version to customers. > Consequently, syslog-ng can be considered a case of 'open core' in the > sense that syslog-ng is always at risk of being the disregarded > stepchild because more effort is put into the proprietary 'Premium Edition'. > (This is part of the reason I personally continue to favour rsyslog, > but not vehemently.) > > 2007 comparison: > https://web.archive.org/web/20170612021518/http://blog.gerhards.net/2007/08/why-does-world-need-another-syslogd.html
Even Poettering recommends rsyslog for some use cases https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1291 --Tom _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
