> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:44 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Feedback requested: legacy options support > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > via the compatibility mode option (-c), rsyslog still supports legacy > options > > (like -t to start a tcp listener). This code complicates a couple of > things > > quite a bit, especially in regard to the config system. > > > > I am very tempted to drop support for legacy options in v6. That > could lead > > to smaller and simpler code. Also, I think it is acceptable that > someone > > running v6 finally moves away from the sysklogd/rsyslog v1 style of > > configuration via command line options. > > > > I also noticed that the average user seems to have problems > identifying where > > each distro places the actual call to rsyslogd, so users seem to > prefer > > configuring all options inside the main configuration file (what I > tend to > > think to be more useful as well). > > > > Does anyone has a good argument why to retain the legacy support in > v6? If > > so, please make yourself heard, because otherwise I'll probably drop > that > > support. > > Distros tend to make it hard to fiddle with command-line parameters to > daemons, so I don't think there's a lot of reason to keep the old > options. > > there are some options that are relavent to use that do not have a > config > equivalent (-x -4 to name just a couple), you may want to try and make > sure that there is a config version of all options (except for > specifying > where the config file is ;-) and then consider dropping all of them > eventually. there will need to be some time for migration, so these > extra > config options will need to get backported to v5 if you want to > eliminate > the command-line options in v6
This makes a lot of sense and sounds like a good plan-- thanks :) Rainer > > David Lang > _______________________________________________ > 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
