Hello Team,

A few years back I heard about a project that would have added functionality to syslog-ng that would have enabled configurability from the command line.

This was the respective PR: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1326

Since then the PR was closed and part of the functionality provided by the PR has been added to syslog-ng (in https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1605), but not the CLI configurability part.

I personally think that being able to configure syslog-ng through its command line arguments would bear a great potential.

Of course running it with a complex configuration passed in through CLI argument would be infeasible, but with simple, single-purpose logging setups it would prove to be a very powerful tool.

For example when trying to empty a bunch of orphaned disk queue files, it would be very easy to spin up several syslog-ng instances from a script with only slightly differing configuration.

What do you guys think? Do you agree as well that this feature would bear a lot of added value to syslog-ng?

Thanks for sharing your opinions!

Best Regards,

János Szigetvári