2016-11-22 18:14 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > >> The current packages are very granular. You don't gain much by >> re-packaging, at least this is what I think. If I am wrong, I am all >> ears, as it should be fairly easy to change that at least for the >> project-provided packages. > > > The reasons I'm thinking of a diffeent package are: > > 1. compile out everything possible (let it use the rsyslog packages if the > rsyslog package is included and the config is changed to need them) > > 2. change the default config file to something other than /etc/rsyslog.conf > > 3. include a very different default config file > > 4. changed binary name (something like logsend instead of rsyslogd) > > looking at these. > > #1 may not be that useful, I'll have to play around with things. > > #2 is needed to reduce complexity and support #3 > > #3 is where a lot of the change comes in. I don't know if we change the main > queue type to direct or just shrink it down to something on the order of 100 > entries, but changes like that that will make it use FAR less memory. > > #4 is a pure social engineering play
interesting idea... Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
