Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:36:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Users are very good at missing these jokes. -Rob Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a an advanced and powerful syslog daemon in the short description

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:47:45 -0600, William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (on another note, dsyslog is now complete enough that it has replaced the syslogd on my desktop.) What are the difference with rsyslog which also aims at providing a pure modular design?

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:02 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:47:45 -0600, William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (on another note, dsyslog is now complete enough that it has replaced the syslogd on my desktop.) What are the difference with rsyslog which also

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Users are very good at missing these jokes. -Rob Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a an advanced and powerful syslog daemon in the short description then. Without the leading article, then, please...:-). See DevRef

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 06:36 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Users are very good at missing these jokes. -Rob Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a an advanced and powerful syslog daemon in the short description

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am writing a syslog daemon called dsyslog. Why you ask? Because none of the other syslogd's were designed in the way that I would like, so I figured I would do it myself. * Package name: dsyslog Version

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/08 16:33, William Pitcock wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am writing a syslog daemon called dsyslog. Why you ask? Because none of the other syslogd's were designed in the way that I would like, so I figured I would do it

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite rules and expandability through it's purely modular design. The default configuration is a drop in replacement for syslogd. What's so dumb about that?

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:07 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite rules and expandability through it's purely modular design. The default configuration is a

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:22 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:07 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite rules and expandability

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/08 23:22, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:07 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite rules and