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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:20:41AM -0500, Erich J. Ritzmann wrote: > > The advantage of centralization from a system management perspective is > significant. Everything from the standard location of logs, to > simplicity of log rotation, to the ease with which you can configure > the logging level using standard syslog configuration --...

Hi there. > > - syslog logging > > Not sure if that's really all that worthwhile. What's the reasoning behind > this one? Nothing particular, i was just thinking it's cool to have a centralised way of dealing with logs when i was writing the list of potential todo stuff. Not a big deal if it's not done. > > - having a nice graphical or web interface around

Syslog is the proper way to do logging on a UNIX/Linux system. In a serious production environment, you tend to be automatically disqualified from consideration for doing anything different -- it's just too much of a headache to figure out all the quirks of non-standard applications. On the other hand, if ICECAST was only ever intended as a hobby, then it really doesn't matter.