[1676] in NetBSD-Development
Re: logging to wslogger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Apr 30 14:09:57 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, sipb-athena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:03:04 EDT."
<199804301803.OAA28620@opus.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:09:14 EDT
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> ops already has a bazillion ways of tracking your install (Kerberos
> logs and Hesiod queries come to mind).
But syslogs get chewed up and then sent to a public mailing list and
discuss meeting. And the syslog-digester has regexps to punt certain
unimportant Solaris and Irix syslogs, but not for corresponding NetBSD
ones, so lots of stuff gets through.
> I don't see why a SIPB-Athena machine needs to be any different from
> a private Athena workstation in terms of the privacy considerations
> of syslog.conf.
I totally disagree. There's a big difference between my personal
machine that I bought myself and have in my house, and a machine in my
office that I merely maintain. And people don't _expect_ SIPB-Athena
to be exactly like Athena, as demonstrated by all of the suprised
alpha testers being confused about having to set PUBLIC false and
such.
I agree with Sam.
-- Dan
