Volker Wiegand wrote:
> On backward compatibility:
> A challange, indeed. Within the local machine this touches the config file
> and the output format, and of course the daemons. I would like to keep the
> basic /etc/syslog.conf design, but have more flexibility in extending it.
> Several current approaches use braces after the facility+severity. To be
> honest, I dislike this. Limits the number of extensions and actually voids
> the readability. My proposal is a "continuation record", disguised as a
> comment with a marker. Sorry if this is already talking implementation.
> The output format is something I would be open to discuss. Uniform style
> is a nice-to-have, maybe more?
>
I would suggest including an optional output format configuration
into/etc/syslog.conf . Defaults to something that makes sense and allows
you to keep compatibility with old-style output if you want to.
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