Reducing rsyslog redundancy [was: brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance - disk footprint]

[Martin Pitt]

Steve Langasek [2010-11-02  9:56 -0700]:
> Does this proposal include keeping /var/log/auth.log separate?  There are
> several logs that are currently written to disk synchronously that lose this
> characteristic if we do "one big logfile"; namely, /var/log/auth.log,
> /var/log/mail.err, and /var/log/news/news.{crit,err}, each of which we have
> a good reason to want to be recorded in the event of a system crash.

I totally agree, and I didn't intend to remove these sensitive ones.
 
I'd prefer keeping the "catch-all" /var/log/syslog and drop the
duplicated more special ones, as things like d-i and logcheck depend
on this, but not the others:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/natty/rsyslog/natty/revision/35

Please yell if you have any objections.

Thanks,

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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