Re: squid, openldap, and local4 in syslog
>>>>> "Jean" == Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> writes:
Jean> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Le Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 09:58:30AM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq
>> écrivait: > I have the same issue with WN, an http server.
>> Currently, it uses > daemon to log its messages through syslog. I
>> would like to select one > of local? facilities to better isolate
>> the HTTP server. Some guidance > from the Debian policy on the
>> selection of facilities would be helpful > in preventing problems.
>>
>> Actually I have already been confronted to this problem. Which
>> local facility to use ? That's why I wrote the perl script
>> syslog-facility for Debian. It does attribute you a local facility
>> that is not yet used. Take a look a the man page
>> syslog-facility(8). It's available since release 1.3-27 of syslogd.
Jean> Well this is very nice. But this doesn't solve the problem of
Jean> all HTTP servers using the same local facility. It just finds
Jean> the first free one.
True. But let's look at it from another angle: the local facilities,
are, by definition, for local sysadmin use. For Debian Policy to
stipulate that a local? syslog facility should be use for this or that
(i.e., web servers) would be broken.
I suggest you brush up on the discussions we had in 1998 (no date
recalled) in debian-policy about this very topic. Try altavista
searching debian-policy or some such...
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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