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

["Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards%gmail.com@localhost>]

2008/6/10 Martin Schütte <info%mschuette.name@localhost>:
> Christos Zoulas schrieb:
>>>
>>> The problem is backwards compatibility. If I change the syntax (from |
>>> to >), lots of configurations would be broken. So I can not do that.
>>
>> Can't you just stat the destination and if it is a fifo and it has | warn
>> for a version or two?
>
> I would guess Linux users do not want this change, -- because for them "it
> has always been that way"...

Yes, I think this is the real problem. It's quite unfortunate that
these things have split in the past...

Rainer