[Mailman-Developers] mm-handler 2.1.10(was:beforenextrelease:disable backscatter in default installation)

[Mark Sapiro]

David Champion wrote:
>
>Correct.  But as previously noted, syslog might not log anything at all
>on some systems -- that's why mm-handler didn't use it originally.  And
>this is debugging code, not meant for live environments....


True, but Kenneth added additional logging beyond the debuging code.

Also, There are two perl modules, Sys::Syslog and Unix::Syslog. I'm not
very familiar with perl and it's various modules, so I may be wrong,
but I think that Sys::Syslog is the more common, but Kenneth is using
Unix::Syslog. According to the FAQ at
<http://search.cpan.org/~mharnisch/Unix-Syslog-0.100/Syslog.pm>,
Unix::Syslog requires syslogd to be running on the local host, but
given that, it doesn't communicate with syslogd through a network
connection so it is not subject to the problems with that.

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