> BTW Malcolm, be careful, the default syslogd from sysklogd cannot
forward
> messages to a remote syslog server if it received them from a UDP
socket.
> This is pretty annoying because syslogd is slow on disk and cannot
forward.
> If you want to use this solution in your appliances, I strongly
suggest
> that you switch to another syslogd.
>
syslogd isn't so bad if you prefix the busy log filename with a -. By default syslogd causes a fsync after every message, but as long as you let it buffer by using a - it's fairly efficient on disk. Received on 2007/10/24 07:30
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