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Re: working on a new syslogd.
From: Darren Reed <avalon () coombs anu edu au>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 01:45:26 +1000 (EST)
In some mail from Aleph One, sie said:
Why not work with the CORE S.A. folks that are working on ssyslog? Works fine around here expect for a few gotchas, like not being able to rotate logs without user intervention. I also wonder how broad Schneier's patent would be. Crypto hash chaining has been around for some time now.
My main problem with encryption of the logs is that one of the design goals is for the messages logged to be "backward compatible" with the current syslogd so all those scripts and other things which scan log files now do not need to change. I think people would be surprised just how many packages (commercial and non) depend on that format in plain text. As it is now, it can be dropped in to replace syslogd and provide the same functionality. Then when the sysadmin has time, they can migrate their config but not have to worry about anything which depends on the logs. Darren p.s. someone asked about rotation - that is a job for newsyslog and isn't something I want to integrate (was considered). Also, again, there are other scripts/tools which it would needlessly interfere with.
Current thread:
- working on a new syslogd. Darren Reed (Jul 02)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Aleph One (Jul 03)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Darren Reed (Jul 19)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Ivan Arce,CORE SDI (Jul 21)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Darren Reed (Jul 19)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Doug Hughes (Jul 03)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Bennett Todd (Jul 07)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Hubert Weikert (Jul 08)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Darren Reed (Jul 19)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Ivan Arce,CORE SDI (Jul 21)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Hubert Weikert (Jul 08)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Aleph One (Jul 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: working on a new syslogd. ark (Jul 07)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. ark (Jul 20)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Alfred Huger (Jul 21)
- Re: working on a new syslogd. Darren Reed (Jul 22)