Feature-Request: Syslog-name of Bird6

[Wolfgang Hennerbichler]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 09:40 , Arnold Nipper wrote:

> On 22.03.2010 08:41 Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote
> 
>> would it be possible to let bird6 log with the bird6 prefix to syslog
>> instead of bird? This would make debugging a little easier, as we run
>> bird and bird6 on the same machine, and it's not too easy to
>> determine which bird is logging what. I guess this would be trivial
>> to accomplish without looking at the sources.
>> 
> 
> I do
> 
> log "/var/log/bird/bird.log" all;
> 
> in bird.conf and
> 
> log "/var/log/bird/bird6.log" all;
> 
> in bird6.conf. Thus I have everything in one file. Imho much neater than
> using syslog. Of course ymmv

I like syslog, because I'd like to parse all that stuff and provide the logged information to our users (I can attach a pipe to syslog-ng), I'd also like to log it remotely to our centralized syslog-servers. So yes, I do prefer syslog. 

> Arnold
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