[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 0/1] package/sysklogd: proposal to update default syslog.conf

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Feb 1 09:43:53 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:58:26 +0100
 > Joachim Wiberg <troglobit at gmail.com> wrote:

 >> True, no point in having a local copy.
 >> 
 >> My main question was if there was any specific reason to sticking with
 >> the old habits of only using /var/log/messages, as BusyBox syslogd does,
 >> or if every logging package is free to have its own defalts?  Within
 >> reason, of course.  I'm just a bit concerned with breaking peoples
 >> defaults, even though they can just provide their own.
 >> 
 >> If it's OK to change for sysklogd, I can post a new patch that drops
 >> the locallay maintained .conf and instead installs the sysklogd one.

 > I don't have a strong opinion on what should be our default
 > configuration for sysklogd. Peter, do you have any comments ?

Not really. People can still use a custom configuration file in their
rootfs overlay, so I don't have a problem with changing the default
configuration to be more "normal", E.G. what upstream suggests.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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