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sysklog and Slackware

From	Mike Small <smallm@panix.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	sysklog and Slackware
Date	2023-03-06 13:47 -0500
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<jpk356hogy4.fsf@panix5.panix.com> (permalink)

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Hi,

I was curious about the history of syslogd in Slackware and the
motivations for using the logging project that it does. I'm reading the
book How Linux Works by Brian Ward, which lists the common logging
possibilities under Linux as involving journald, rsyslog, and/or
syslog-ng.

Slackware instead uses sysklog, a port from the original BSD code that
goes all the way back to Eric Allman and Sendmail, to 1980. 15.0 has a
refreshed version of that by Joachim Wiberg with code from NetBSD and
FreeBSD that implements newer RFCs. Among the few LinuxQuestions threads
I could find on sysklog -- mostly of the "could you patch this bug"
variety --the two sysklogd versions are referred to as the troglobit
version (Wiberg's updates, 2.X) and the infodrom version (Dr. Wettstein,
Martin Schulze, et al; 1.5.1). Wikipedia seems to lack any mention of
sysklog, but /usr/doc has some decent info.

Do you remember any discussions describing this preference vs. other
distros' for rsyslog or syslog-ng? Or do you have your own opinions?

Regards,
Mike Sm.

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sysklog and Slackware Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> - 2023-03-06 13:47 -0500
  Re: sysklog and Slackware Edward McGuire <metaed@gmail.com> - 2023-03-06 11:58 -0800
  Re: sysklog and Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-07 06:35 +0000

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