On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:02, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > As you all know, rsyslog.conf format is ugly (to phrase it politely). Adiscon > has begun an initiative to unify config language across products. I'd like to > join that initiative with rsyslog, thus gaining some extra help. So my plan > is to actually begin looking at the config language once I am through with > the current round of optimizations.
It's only ugly because the format it's stayed so true to was, IMO, never designed to express the complex configurations we find ourselves needing these days. In spite of being dissatisfied with the current format, I'm always impressed by how much you've managed to shoehorn into it. > To do so, I would like to receive your feedback on a config proposal that I > have been able to discuss with an internal expert. We have now based the > format on the familiar Apache config format, with some extra bells and > whistles to make it more useful for syslog. Regardless of what format you settle on, you're eventually going to have to address the legacy user population. Providing a conversion routine or service that they can just plug their existing configuration into and validate the results would go a long way toward keeping them happy and moving forward. A web service to do so would be tempting, but we _are_ talking about users that run the same daemon for years - an optionally-built tool may be the way to go. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
