On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:32:32PM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote: > Balazs Scheidler wrote: > >xnewsyslog(LOG_DAEMON | LOG_INFO, > > "User logged in", > > "%(user)s %(tty)s %(host)s", > > "marcus", "ttyp6", host); > > This is horrible. You're basically doing the same thing as > "old" syslog: you're sticking arbitrary strings out there with > no mark-up regarding their semantics. > > Right now the assembled log-weenies of the world are fighting > a battle (that is about to become hugely expensive) to apply > significance (i.e.: semantic value) to log data. Continuing to > encourage client-side APIs that are devoid of additional > semantic data is not helping anything. We may as well stick > with stupid old syslog (but fix the transports) and call it sucky > enough. Limiting the number of possible markups with a fixed set without the possibility of extension will not help the world either. Maybe we can start gathering MIBs for log tags ? -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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