In some email I received from Roger Marquis, sie wrote:
>
> Proposed facilities:
>
> A) maintain all common existing facilities for backwards compatibility:
> kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron,
> local0 - local7,
My list currently contains:
kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron2, cron,
ftp, authpriv, audit, ntp, logalert, mark, local0-7.
The "cron2/cron" thing is beacuse Sun use a different facility number
to almost everyone else (sigh). I think there is yet another conflict
due to FreeBSD inventing another of their own facilities, but essentially,
all facility numbers are now spoken for, upto and including 24.
I don't believe that allowing for local8-60000 would help. What people
are saying is they want to be able to say the facility is sendmail or
qmail or tcpd or roger when then do their openlog() call.
Darren
