On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:57:26AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > Agreed. It should be syslog-ng. If nobody objects, I'll change it in > > base/virtuals. > > Objecting, obviously ;) [...] > I'd rather see reasons listed as to why syslog-ng is a superior > default for users who (most likely) don't care, then "we lack > /var/log/messages" :)
We've had metalog as the example log daemon in the Gentoo Handbook in the
past. Every time it was added, we got a nice bug about why metalog was a bad
default and syslog-ng should be used.
I'm not on the I'net right now, but if you annotate the
[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-tools.xml file you'll see a
bunch of reasons over the past few changes.
Afaik, most architectures prefer syslog-ng.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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