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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-08-14 12:20, Clem Cole wrote:<br>
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Did that idea ever grow any significant legs?</blockquote>
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color="#0000ff">I guess the word here is significant. It
certainly was used where it made sense. In the CAD group,
we had simulations that might run for a few days. We used
to call the mailer every so often to send status and
sometimes do something like a checkpoint. <span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It lead to
Sam writing syslogd, particularly after Joy created UNIX
domain sockets. But I can say we used it a number of
places in systems oriented or long running code before
syslogd as a scheme to log errors, deal with stuff. <br>
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<p>Another correction: I wrote syslogd as part of the
delivermail/sendmail project, but I did intentionally make it
generic so it could be used by other services. Interestingly, I
even got it to work on v6 using something called "mpx files".</p>
<p>eric<br>
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