Bug 29600 – Metalog a good recommendation ?

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Steven Wagner 2003-09-25 10:56:02 UTC]

"Power users seem to gravitate away from sysklogd (not very good performance)
and towards the newer alternatives. If in doubt, you may want to try metalog,
since it seems to be quite popular."

Maybe I don't understand enough here, but metalog doesn't give users a
/var/log/messages file.  This tends to throw people off who immediately want to
be power users and can't find a messages file to tail.  Ive talked to numerous
newbies in #gentoo who all installed metalog and then got lost when trying to
change it.  My suggestion is to maybe recommend a different alternative, or to
make a note to users telling them they arn't going to have a /var/log/messages
file with metalog.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 12:48:02 UTC]

What does metalogd then (default) put the messages in?

[Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 13:48:24 UTC]

/var/log/everything/current

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 01:03:20 UTC]

I'll go with my own choice then, syslog-ng... any objections?

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 02:24:12 UTC]

Created attachment 18353 [details, diff]
Patch 1/2: (installation guide) remove metalogd extravaganza

This patch removes the recommendation to use metalogd and "recommends"
syslog-ng. It also removes the metalogd-buffering information, which will
be
added as a FAQ.

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 02:25:09 UTC]

Created attachment 18354 [details, diff]
Patch 2/2: (fax) add metalogd buffering information

[Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 05:31:46 UTC]

Created attachment 18394 [details, diff]
Patch 1/2: (installation guide) same as before plus a small note about the FAQ

[Comment 7 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 05:39:38 UTC]

patches are looking good :)

[Comment 8 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 11:10:54 UTC]

committed. Thanks for reporting