On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Daniel Parry wrote:
> Now syslog (default BSD version), in its infinite wisdom sees the
> identical messages and decides that they should both be reported
> at the priority level of the first... thus the alert slips through
> at level info! Now this is no fault of exim, but it could catch
> out the unwary! My workaround is to switch to using syslog-ng
> which performs less log summarization than the default linux
> syslog application. I wonder if it may be worth mentioning this
> issue in the docs, or perhaps panic events should be reported
> solely at the panic level when using syslog, or maybe something
> else...?
Syslog support was bolted on to Exim and has never really been
"polished" properly, because I don't myself use it and therefore don't
know much about it. The Exim log model doesn't really map well to the
syslog model, I guess. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to use only the
panic level for panic events. What do people think?
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