Re: [syslog-ng] Store syslog occurrence frequency instead of adding all of them to the DB

On 2011-08-19, syslogng@feystorm.net wrote:

The idea that was mentioned is not without its flaws. [...] Secondly using a 32-bit checksum of the message text to determine uniqueness is risky. It would be farily easy to end up with 2 different messages that have the same checksum. A md5 checksum would be much better, but I dont believe syslog-ng has a function to compute md5 sums.

One can delegate this task to the database itself. MySQL has MD5() as well as SHA1() built in. -- Jakub Jankowski|shasta@toxcorp.com|http://toxcorp.com/ GPG: FCBF F03D 9ADB B768 8B92 BB52 0341 9037 A875 942D