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  1. Why do I continue to maintain on Linux when there's and ?

    I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

  2. Why do I continue to maintain #sysklogd on Linux when there's #rsyslog and #syslogng?

    I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

    #opensource #linux #syslog

  3. Why do I continue to maintain #sysklogd on Linux when there's #rsyslog and #syslogng?

    I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

    #opensource #linux #syslog

  4. Why do I continue to maintain #sysklogd on Linux when there's #rsyslog and #syslogng?

    I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

    #opensource #linux #syslog

  5. Why do I continue to maintain #sysklogd on Linux when there's #rsyslog and #syslogng?

    I believe what sysklogd has going for it is exactly what the competitors sacrificed: simplicity, a tiny footprint, zero dependencies beyond libc, and a config file a human can read in five minutes. On embedded systems, routers, and appliances that's not a consolation prize — it's the point.

    #opensource #linux #syslog

  6. Added basic functionality to today. And then my regression tests suddenly started failing … on CI. Obviously work fine when run locally, and tests failing that are not related to the latest changes and worked fine the last weeks *sigh*

    At least I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow.

  7. Ah yes, I’m done! Just completed program, hostname, and (generic) property based (incl RFC5424 properties!) filtering support for 🤓🤯 The latter supports very powerful text matching, including regexp! Next release will probably be out tomorrow, first day of the new year!

    github.com/troglobit/sysklogd

  8. For most (all) of our automated testing in we use which is amazing in every way and really fit for purpose, but in the project (and many others) I rely on plain shell scripts, and OMG it's so easy to forget how powerful scripting is!

  9. Refactoring tests in the project for upcoming new features 🤓