On Tuesday July 6 2010 02:09:27 pm Sebastian Plotz wrote: > What about changing from Sysklogd to syslog-ng? > > - syslog-ng is under active development > - sysklogd is quiet old (last version released in 2007) > - we just need to run one daemon (instead of syslogd and klogd)
We tried Syslog-ng years ago because we thought Sysklogd wasn't being maintained. Syslog-ng couldn't handle load very well, it would use a lot of CPU. Then Sysklogd made a new release soon after. The impression I get is that the Sysklogd maintainer is happy with the features and is only making new releases to fix bugs or vulnerabilities. Sysklogd is small, simple, and it works. It has a long track record of stability. It's one of the most stable packages we have. When a single daemon or program does system and kernel logging, built in cron for log rotation, email notification for regex matching of log messages, and miscellaneous stuff like that, stability and performance become problems. Stuff like that is probably best performed by different specialized applications. robert
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