[Eventmachine-talk] EM based clustering proxy for web apps

Michael S. Fischer
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:07:42 -0000

On 2/27/07, Kirk Haines <wyhaines at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Michael S. Fischer <michael at dynamine.net> wrote:
>
> > What are the advantages over syslogd(8)?
>
> I see a few.
>
> People can use it without having root access on a system.  They just
> need to be able to run persistent processes.
>
> syslog uses UDP, so logging messages can be lost, especially if there
> are lots of packets flying around.  This one is a big one to me.

See also syslog-ng at http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/

--Michael