Why do I continue to maintain #sysklogd on Linux when there's #rsyslog and #syslogng?

I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

#opensource #linux #syslog

I suppose it's never too late to discover that each reboot of that particular system is sending the “first boot” logs every single time (we switch from persistent to volatile after that).

If I'm reading syslog-ng's source code right, esp. the _journal_open() function in modules/systemd-journal/journal-reader.c, the flags cannot be configured, meaning SD_JOURNAL_LOCAL_ONLY is used, and one cannot add SD_JOURNAL_RUNTIME_ONLY via the configuration.

#syslogng

Anyone else sing the Ren and Stimpy log commercial's theme song whenever they deploy a new #syslog server?

#syslogng

Look what I've found while reading #haproxy docs : #YouPorn is implemented as a LAMP stack and serves 300.000 requests per second !
That's massive.

https://www.haproxy.org/they-use-it.html
https://highscalability.com/youporn-targeting-200-million-views-a-day-and-beyond/

#performance #scalability #development #Redis #nginx #php #ActiveMQ #varnish #MySQL #symfony2 #syslogng

syslogd gets capsicumized in #FreeBSD HEAD: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=897240c7d666744137da6125feabf3c3a5522ada

I wonder what it would take to integrate Capsicum into #syslogng (if that's even possible).

#infosec