Quoting Volker Wiegand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:19:50PM +0200:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, der Mouse wrote:
>
> > >>> - Compression of equal/similar(?) lines at the originating host.
> > >> This should be accomplished with a repetition count assigned to
> > >> messages. "Last message repeated NNN times" make it quite difficult
> > >> to find the original message.
> >
> > ...huh? It's the last line before the "last message repeated" lines.
> >
> Hmmm, this helps you only for local messages. The moment you start mixing
> syslog messages from different hosts on your central loghost, you won't be
> able to associate the messages any more.
You will, if every message has the originatiing host. (see my patch to the
current linux syslog)
> The clever way out of this might be the mandatory inclusion of a sequence
> number and reference to this number in the repeat message.
That of course is something we should have!
cheers
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