On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > > > What would be really cool is if more config files could > > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > > look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for > > packages. > > Well, it's a trivial part of XML but the syntax is twisted. The > problem is that, particularly in the case of something like > syslog.conf, you need to change the defaults, not just supplement > them. Right now syslog has no concept of this (and changing the > notation doesn't help without a complete rethink of the syslog.conf > semantics). Worthwhile, but a lot of work for which nobody will be > grateful (instead they will all complain that you changed the format > of the file). of course.. New functionality vs POLA. An age old conflict. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
