I think that she's referring to the comments in the code, and
reference manual that read "This feature [syslog] is provided in
Cfengine Nova and above."

See:
http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#syslog_005fhost-in-common



On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 13:10, Mark Burgess <mark.burg...@iu.hio.no> wrote:
>
> Nothing that was in cf2 is missing in cf3. I don't understand your remarks.
>
>
> fo...@cfengine.com wrote:
>> Forum: Cfengine Help
>> Subject: Please add full syslog support to community edition v.3
>> Author: jgreer
>> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17036,17036#msg-17036
>>
>> We are in the process of migrating from cf2 to cf3 and were disappointed to 
>> learn that syslog support is now absent from v3 in the community edition:
>>
>> root:/var/cfengine/inputs# ../bin/cf-agent -v  | grep -i log
>> cf3 Remote logging requires version Nova or above
>> cf3 Remote logging requires version Nova or above
>>
>> This has been a standard Unix interface since BSD 4.2, circa 1983, and was 
>> an important feature for our community installation of v.2.  I suspect this 
>> is true of others within the community.
>>
>> We've considered workarounds, all of which are inelegant solutions.  
>> Receiving feedback from Cfengine by way of reports instead of logging 
>> requires adding in reporting statements for all of our promises and didn't 
>> give us the output we're looking for.
>>
>> Please consider making this available in the v.3 community edition.  I 
>> encourage any community members interested in syslog support to chime in.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jessica
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Jessica Greer
>> Unix Infrastructure and Virtualization
>> Information Technology Services | Yale University
>> (203)436-5205 | jessica.gr...@yale.edu
>>
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