"Mike Perks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running the older version of daemontools and I still ppe my output thru
>splogger? I have been reading that the newer version uses the multilog..
>
>Is there any advantage to this.. Is it better not to go thru syslogd??
Of course. If there was no advantage to multilog over syslog, Dan
wouldn't have bothered to write multilog, and I wouldn't have bothered
to use it in LWQ.
The problems with syslog are:
security: syslog is a network service with no access control or
authentication. It has been the subject of security advisories in
the past.
reliability: syslog throws messages away if runs out of disk
space. It will happily fill up the entire filesystem it's logging
to.
efficiency: syslog is slow. On a busy mail server, syslog can use up
more CPU that the MTA.
-Dave
