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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] logging to stderr
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:21:45 +0100
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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.

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