"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:
What does metalogd then (default) put the messages in?
/var/log/everything/current
I'll go with my own choice then, syslog-ng... any objections?
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.
Created attachment 18354 [details, diff] Patch 2/2: (fax) add metalogd buffering information
Created attachment 18394 [details, diff] Patch 1/2: (installation guide) same as before plus a small note about the FAQ
patches are looking good :)
committed. Thanks for reporting
