[syslog-ng] Message aggregation: or, 'Last message repeated umpteen times'.

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:28 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:33:17 +0200  Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:02:19PM -0400, Kevin Welch wrote:
> > > I know this issue has been discussed before, but I never saw an answer other
> > > than 'syslog-ng doesnt do that'.
> > >
> > > Perhaps someone could provide insight as to why syslog-ng doesnt aggregate
> > > messages received?  Is this on a feature list for future releases?
> >
> > It might be implemented once I have time, though IMHO message aggregation
> > makes log analysis more difficult, especially if you have multiple cascaded
> > log relays.
> 
> Balazs, I read the manpage, Googled and grepped the source and I
> believe I know the answer, but I'd like to have your confirmation.
> 
> Is it still the case that syslog-ng does no message aggregation?  (I'm
> not asking because I want it.  I'm asking because I _don't_ want it. :)

As far as I know, I never programmed anything like this until now.

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Bazsi