Re: SoC: Improve syslogd

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Martin Schütte wrote:
> - transport-tls defines the network protocol to send syslog over TLS (instead 
> of UDP), thus providing a reliable and authenticated transport.
> In addition to reliable network transport I also consider a modified local 
> log submission (from syslog(3) to syslogd) to use a stream instead of a 
> datagram socket, thus providing reliable submission and possible rate limits.

"a stream"? System V STREAMs are not available in NetBSD AFAIK, or what 
exactly do you mean?


> - syslog-sign defines signature messages for authentication, integrity and 
> correct sequencing of syslog messages. (For this part I am going to build 
> upon the afaik only existing implementation by Albert Mietus.)

What license is that existing implementation under?

I cannot comment on the subject at hand itself. Seems there's a pretty 
high "research / conquer new grounds" factor in it.


 - Hubert