[Dev] [issue292] Migrate to a free syslogd Was: [syslog-ng] man pages are nonfree

[Nicolás Reynolds (Parabola Issue Tracker)]

Nicolás Reynolds added the comment:

Mtjm discovered syslog-ng documentation is unfree (cc-nc-nd), so I'd proppose to
change to another one, since providing it without documentation turns it useless.

Current options on repositories are: rsyslogd and metalog.

Rsyslogd seems too much, and metalog announces itself as tinier than syslog-ng.
The problem is that:

* Does it's own logrotate (but it doesn't gzip them)
* The /var/log tree changes (from everything.log to everything/current in the
default log)
* It runs as root so the files created are root:root instead of root:log (users
on the log group aren't able to read log files)

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nosy: +dev_list -mtjm
title: [syslog-ng] man pages are nonfree -> Migrate to a free syslogd Was: [syslog-ng] man pages are nonfree

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