decent syslog replacement?

Juha Syrjälä Juha.Syrjala at iki.fi
Tue Jul 31 17:21:28 EDT 2001


In article <mailman.996601142.13364.python-list at python.org>, Nicholas Henke
wrote: 
>Thanks...I forgot about the syslog - thing...The main problem is the
>syslog disk thrashing...I guess I wasnt really clear about that. Are there
>any clean options to buffer even more than syslog might do?

One thing you might try is to use syslog to send the logs to another
machine. This makes disk trashing happen in a different machine. And logging
might not be too reliable since syslog uses UDP.

There is also syslog replacement called syslog-ng which might be more
efficient.

-- 
Juha Syrjälä



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