[ovirt-users] vdsm dependency rsyslog?

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/10/2014 02:36 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
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> Am 10.04.2014 12:04, schrieb Dan Kenigsberg:
>> Could you present (here, or on bugzilla) your use case for another
>> syslog service? Which one? Or do you want to turn it off completely?
>
> I'll do both (here and on BZ):
> Usecase:
>
> Well utilize existing log infrastructure which doesn't use
> rsyslog, perhaps?
> e.g. syslog-ng
> furthermore: vdsms logging is configured via /etc/vdsm/logger.conf
> and uses the python module logging:
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html
>
> this module is pretty cool, it allows you to redirect
> your logging basically to wherever you like, including syslog services
> or files, whatever.
>
> so why restrict this builtin feature by adding a hard dependency
> to a specific logging service?
>
> I know it's done because it's built on red hat linux where rsyslog
> is the default, and I don't want to say rsyslog is bad, it's just
> not used by everybody.
>
> As I understand there is work be done to port vdsm and engine
> to different distros like debian/ubuntu and gentoo.
>
> If you really want to port your software, keep it portable.
> This means in the first place don't introduce dependencies
> which aren't absolutely necessary.

wouldn't that just be a dependency change for the package for the other 
distro's? its not like they will use the rhel spec anyway?

>
> This one isn't really necessary.
> I can report to you that e.g. syslog-ng handles vdsm logs
> well. ;)
>
> HTH
>