On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Andreas Siegert wrote:
> Quoting Magosanyi Arpad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:10:15PM
>+0200:
>
> > Interesting idea.
> > I would better like a name than a number. I guess most of the facility
> > names are local to your logging system, and also have some sort of
> > structure (e.g. "firewall/ftp-proxy/from-here-to-there").
>
> Log files would get awfully verbose then. and I typically see several meg of
> log entries per day on a typical DMZ environment.
> Having a /etc/facilities file that can be user extended (with decent defaults
> in a fiven range) should be easy to set up.
Neogtiating plaintext facility name/binary gunk in the protocol nego (if
any) would work as far as the network goes - saving it down in some
compressed form on the target host would be up to the implementation, no?
(I assume this is -disk- space that you're referring to, right?)
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> cheers
> afx
Kriss
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