Re: syslog.conf format (Re: SoC: Improve syslogd)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article 
<dc67eef70806090641o1d881b8la1351ce25493cfb6%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Martin Schütte 
><lists%mschuette.name@localhost> wrote:
>> Rainer Gerhards schrieb:
>>>
>[snip for now]
>> Also some implementations already made incompatible extensions. The most
>> important is probably the pipe action (|), which pipes to a fifo on Linux
>> (sysklogd and rsyslog) but to an exec()'d program on BSD.
>
>Good to know. Maybe I extend rsyslog so that it has a switch to change
>the meaning of that option. But it depends on whether or not that make
>real sense - I am undecided ;)

Why not use > for fifo and | for program?

christos