Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
the local changes live in r.conf. I wish that more files had this capability. For example syslogd.conf or newsyslog.conf are updated between releases but they are also prime candidates for local additions. What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have

Re: config files and includes

2003-02-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for packages. Hmmm... glancing through syslogd.c

config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
files had this capability. For example syslogd.conf or newsyslog.conf are updated between releases but they are also prime candidates for local additions. What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries

config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it look in /usr/local/etc

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread John De Boskey
syslogd.conf or newsyslog.conf are updated between releases but they are also prime candidates for local additions. What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for packages. To do this for every config file would be a lot of work. I do wonder however

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
but they are also prime candidates for local additions. Note that I'm in the middle of some newsyslog changes, so I'm willing to think about it from that side of things. And Wes has some syslogd changes coming, so maybe he'll be interested. What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Emmerton wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: of course.. New functionality vs POLA. An age old conflict. Isn't POLA the reason why people gave up trying to extend the old standards (like syslogd and inetd) and decided to build new feature-rich daemons like