From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] logging to stderr
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:21:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050214162145.GA26266@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050214160739.GH9056@lenin.net>
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:07:40AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> There are sometimes good reasons to log to stderr instead of syslog.
> syslog is slow, loses messages, inflexable, and can introduce delays
> and huge volumes of crap to the disk. Using stderr loggers can
> filter, or do things like rotate logs actively, etc.
OTOH, syslog makes it a lot easier to have unified systems for log rotation
etc. -- and I don't really see what you mean by "inflexible". I'd rather have
it all in one place than inventing a thousand new systems for (say) remote
logging.
Of course, having both isn't bad.
/* Steinar */
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Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-14 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-11 9:55 [PATCH 0/5] rediffed patches Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 9:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] use PATH Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 9:59 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 10:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] add --foreground option Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 10:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] logging to stderr Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 10:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] switch to new logging Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-11 10:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-14 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] logging to stderr Jeff Moyer
2005-02-14 16:07 ` Peter C. Norton
2005-02-14 16:21 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2005-02-14 16:38 ` Peter C. Norton
2005-02-14 16:32 ` ramana
2005-02-15 1:26 ` Ian Kent
2005-02-15 13:28 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-02-15 14:32 ` raven
2005-02-15 15:29 ` Greg Wooledge
2005-02-13 12:26 ` [PATCH 0/5] rediffed patches raven
2005-02-13 13:25 ` raven
2005-02-13 13:42 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2005-02-14 1:10 ` Ian Kent
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