[nylug-talk] syslog-ng vs syslogd

[Sunny Dubey]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 09:45:40 pm Brian Gupta wrote:
> Hey guys, in the Solaris world Syslog-ng is considered the best of
> breed app for deploying a centralized logging server. Is this also the
> case in the Linux world, or is the GNU syslogd on par/better??

If you don't need the extra features of syslog-ng ... why not use what 
everyone else is using ?  The chances of you finding a bug/exploit in a 
not-complex piece of code used by 10's of millions of other users is pretty 
slim.

(I'm mildly intentionally vague about exactly which syslog I speak of because 
different distros seem to use different flavors.  My general rule of thumb 
is: when in doubt use whatever your distro defaults to (duh), and when no 
default exists: use whatever Fedora uses. They'll always have money to throw 
at the problem, you'll be in safe hands.)

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Sunny Dubey

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