<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Team,</div><div><br></div><div>A few years back I heard about a project that would have added functionality to <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.1" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.2" tabindex="-1">ng</span> that would have enabled <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.3" tabindex="-1">configurability</span> from the command line.</div><div>This was the respective PR: https://<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.4" tabindex="-1">github</span>.com/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.5" tabindex="-1">balabit</span>/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.6" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.7" tabindex="-1">ng</span>/pull/1326</div><div><br></div><div>Since then the PR was closed and part of the functionality provided by the PR has been added to <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.8" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.9" tabindex="-1">ng</span> (in https://<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.10" tabindex="-1">github</span>.com/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.11" tabindex="-1">balabit</span>/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.12" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.13" tabindex="-1">ng</span>/pull/1605), but not the <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.14" tabindex="-1">CLI</span> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.15" tabindex="-1">configurability</span> part.</div><div>I personally think that being able to configure <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.16" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.17" tabindex="-1">ng</span> through its command line arguments would bear a great potential.</div><div>Of course running it with a complex configuration passed in through <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.18" tabindex="-1">CLI</span> argument would be infeasible, but with simple, single-purpose logging setups it would prove to be a very powerful tool.</div><div>For example when trying to empty a bunch of orphaned disk queue files, it would be very easy to spin up several <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.19" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.20" tabindex="-1">ng</span> instances from a script with only slightly differing configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you guys think? Do you agree as well that this feature would bear a lot of added value to <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.21" tabindex="-1">syslog</span>-<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.22" tabindex="-1">ng</span>?</div><div>Thanks for sharing your opinions!</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><span class="" style="" id=":f1n.23" tabindex="-1">János</span> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.24" tabindex="-1">Szigetvári</span><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr">Janos <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.25" tabindex="-1">SZIGETVARI</span><br><span><span class="" style="" id=":f1n.26" tabindex="-1">RHCE</span>, License no. <a href="https://www.redhat.com/rhtapps/verify/?certId=150-053-692" target="_blank">150-053-692</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span class="" style="" id=":f1n.27" tabindex="-1">LinkedIn</span>: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/janosszigetvari" target="_blank"><span class="" style="" id=":f1n.28" tabindex="-1">linkedin</span>.com/in/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.29" tabindex="-1">janosszigetvari</span></a></span><br><br>__@__˚V˚<br>Make the switch to open (source) applications, protocols, formats now:<br>- windows -> Linux, <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.30" tabindex="-1">iexplore</span> -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.31" tabindex="-1">Firefox</span>, <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.32" tabindex="-1">msoffice</span> -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.33" tabindex="-1">LibreOffice</span><br>- <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.34" tabindex="-1">msn</span> -> jabber protocol (Pidgin, Google Talk)<br>- mp3 -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.35" tabindex="-1">ogg</span>, <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.36" tabindex="-1">wmv</span> -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.37" tabindex="-1">ogg</span>, <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.38" tabindex="-1">jpg</span> -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.39" tabindex="-1">png</span>, doc/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.40" tabindex="-1">xls</span>/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.41" tabindex="-1">ppt</span> -> <span class="" style="" id=":f1n.42" tabindex="-1">odt</span>/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.43" tabindex="-1">ods</span>/<span class="" style="" id=":f1n.44" tabindex="-1">odp</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>