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

[Charles Roth]

What about writing the devs and asking them to change their license, explain all the free distro's that will have to drop them...


On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:08PM +0000, Nicolás Reynolds (Parabola Issue Tracker) wrote:
> 
> 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)
> 
> ----------
> 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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