> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of RB > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:40 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] feedback requested: NEW rsyslog.conf format > > 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.
I should have mentioned that. The old format will still be supported. In fact, I expect that many, many installations will continue to use it, as for the very simple use cases of workstations and laptops the old format is hard to beat. Over time, however, some of the advanced features will probably no longer work with the old format, but that needs to be seen. And the old format will definitely never receive updates for new features. In any case, with what I have on my mind, the old format will probably be just another way to generate the same in-memory representation of the config. However, I will most probably NOT permit to mix old and new format inside a single file. Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
