freebsd-ports/sysutils/socklog/pkg-descr
Peter Pentchev 9ea8cfb686 Add the sysutils/socklog port: a small and secure syslogd replacement.
PR:		41862
Submitted by:	Sergei Kolobov <sergei@kolobov.com>
2002-09-20 10:13:57 +00:00

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socklog in cooperation with djb's daemontools is a small and secure replacement
for syslogd. There are three main features, syslogd provides:
- receiving syslog messages from an unix domain socket (/dev/log) or UDP socket
(0.0.0.0:514) and writing them to various files on disk depending on facility
and priority.
- writing received syslog messages to an udp socket (a.b.c.d:514)
socklog provides the first two features with the help of daemontools svscan,
supervise and multilog, provides a different network logging concept and
additionally does log event notification.
multilog has a built in logfile rotation based on file size, so there is no
need for any cron jobs or similar to rotate the logs. Log partitions can be
calculated properly.
WWW: http://smarden.org/socklog/