pkgsrc/net/spreadlogd/DESCR
obache 2a377946ed Import spreadlogd version 2.0.0.
Packaged and provided by Mark Blackman via PR 36348.

Spreadlogd is a general purpose daemon for receiving Spread toolkit
broadcast/multicast messages and logging them either to a file or for further
processing by a Perl module as an interpreter is embedded.
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Spreadlogd is a daemon to log to file, messages from spread toolkit clients.
If you kill -HUP or kill the spreadlogd process, it will not actually process
the signal until after it has received its next message from Spread. You can
move you log files to new names and then kill -HUP and it will reopen the log
files. This is useful for seamless log rotation without losing any messages.
Spread is really cool. It is a poweful group communication toolkit developed
at the Center for Networking and Distributed Systems at the Johns Hopkins
University (http://www.spread.org/ and http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/, respectively).