Yes, optional -- please. It is a nice feature if you know it is in play. Otherwise you have mysterious problems with your DB connection that will require lsof and strace to diagnose.
Cheer, Ken On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:44:04AM -0500, Jason Antman wrote: > My thoughts: > > This should be optional. Personally I don't want any more complexity in > ommysql, as I'm trying to use this for relatively important production > purposes. > > Reasons: > 1) I don't like configuration file dependencies. Especially since our > DBA handles my.cnf and I handle rsyslog configuration, I think it's bad > to have changes to an unrelated config file (my.cnf) effect another > daemon (rsyslog). > 2) The patch pre-configure options (TCP, cert validation, secure > authentication) make no sense if MySQL is running on localhost. > Honestly, I didn't even want a password for the MySQL user as needed in > current ommysql. > 3) Why is it assumed that something present in the global /etc/my.cnf is > applicable to rsyslog? > > Just my two cents. > -Jason Antman > Rutgers University > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just received an interesting patch via the bug tracker: > > > > http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213 > > > > What I see looks good to me, but I am not really in into MySQL. Do you think > > this is something I should merge? If not, why not? I'll wait until monday > > and > > will merge if I have not heard any good argument against that. > > > > Thanks, > > 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 > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
