On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Darren Reed wrote:
[Removing duplicate lines]
> > I think we all could live with a configuration option in syslogd. Just
> > leave the possibility in the protocol and add a small note to the protocol
> > spec that this should be optional.
> nsyslogd provides this and it is only put into effect when messages are
> written to disk.
Erm, provides what? Duplicates can be compressed into "repeated x times"
information at two points: The host generating the message or the host
storing it to disk. In the former case, this should happen in a way the
receiving host can understand, in the latter, in a way the client reading
a logfile can understand. Up to now, logfiles were read by humans who
understood the "repeated n times" comment. This may change now.
Simon
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