RE: [logs] SDSC Secure Syslog

From: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhardsat_private)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 02:21:33 PST

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    Darren,
    
    > You're mixing two different mechanisms here. The "event 
    > manager" logs are used in a different way than is syslog 
    
    Not really, under *nix the well-behaved guys will use syslog(). On
    Windows, they write to the system event log. Same story, same idea
    (well, except that Microsoft obviously never thought that those machines
    were on a network and so everthing is stored locally, only ;)).
    
    The fact that there are different interfaces and methodologies used does
    not imply that the desired result is different...
    
    > but 
    > I suppose the question is, should syslog support that type of 
    > use anyway?  And if so, how?  The mechanism currently used is 
    > not sufficient, I think.
    
    I strongly think that syslog should be generic enough (and it currently
    is) to support events from all sources. After all, isn't one of the
    basic ideas behind syslog to consolidate events from various sources
    onto a single (set) of machines. And yes, the current protocol supports
    this (more or less) as can be seen in our forwarder implementation as
    well as others...
    
    Rainer
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