Quoting Kriss Andsten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:13:58PM +0000:
> 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?)
Yes, disk space is an issue. Transfering redundant info over the net is
also an issue for larger environments (I have seen customers where several
hundred megs of loginfo are collected every day, surely not the norm, but it
happens).
I don't think we need negotiation. Havind a standard /etc/facilities would be
sufficient. Any installation can then add custom stuff.
cheers
afx
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