[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

Jaap Akkerhuis jaapna at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 21 19:16:49 AEST 2018



> On Mar 21, 2018, at 3:31, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> There are also ways in which Unix is just simply deficient.  For
> example, take syslog.  It's simple, sure, but it has an extremely
> simple structure, and it's not nearly flexible enough for more
> sophisticated use cases.  As a result, *many* commercial Unix systems
> have tried reinventing an event logging system which had more structure.

I've been told that syslog was came in existence as a debugging aid for sendmai.

	jaap

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