[systemd-devel] [RFC] systemd syslogd

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Maarten Lankhorst
<m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey William,
>
> On 06/21/2011 06:50 AM, William Douglas wrote:
>> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
>>
>>> In general I must say that I actually like the code (and the coding
>>> style) very much, so it's hard for me to say no to this.
>>>
>>> KUTGW,
>>>
>>> Lennart
>> I understand your reasoning and, though I'm disappointed it doesn't look like this syslogd can make it into systemd, it will at least see some use in MeeGo.
>>
>> Also, thank you very much for looking through the code anyway! As this is probably the biggest hunk of C I've put together, I can use all the feedback I can get =).
> If you want a small logger, can't you just build busybox with only syslogd?
>
> /tmp/busybox-1.18.5$ ./busybox
> BusyBox v1.18.5 (2011-06-22 00:41:45 CEST) multi-call binary.
> Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko
> and others. Licensed under GPLv2.
> See source distribution for full notice.
>
> Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
>   or: busybox --list[-full]
>   or: function [arguments]...
>
>        BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
>        utilities into a single executable.  Most people will create a
>        link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
>        will act like whatever it was invoked as.
>
> Currently defined functions:
>        klogd, logger, logread, syslogd
>
> size: 29k stripped with make allnoconfig and the above enabled.

we're not doing busybox, it's a no-no for now in MeeGo.

Auke