Re: 7.0 RPMS and syslog problem. (more)

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Schout <mschout(at)gkg(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.0 RPMS and syslog problem. (more)
Date: 2000-05-17 16:55:59
Message-ID: 3922CF1F.DBEC27DB@wgcr.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Michael Schout <mschout(at)gkg(dot)net> writes:
> > Upon further investigation, I found that when the hostname is broadcast to everyone, the following also appears in /var/log/messages:
> > May 17 09:28:11 galaxy
> > May 17 09:28:11 galaxy syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together

> Hmm. We were just discussing this a few weeks ago, when someone
> suggested making the syslog option be the default and I wanted to
> know if it was really robust enough for that. Seems it's not.

> So I'm afraid the answer is that syslog and verbose logging won't
> play together, at least not on your platform. Sorry.

> We really need a better logging answer...

Splitting the logging message out to syslog in tprintf() (or its
replacement) would work, if we knew the syslog gluing buffer maxlen. A
'packetized' logging system of this sort might work....

--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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