The problem is that GUIs are good at doing syntax, not semantics.
For that, you need a good debugging mechanism with multiple, granular, levels of verbosity, which seems to be lacking (i.e, troubleshooting the internally configured logic). I haven't tried 2.x, though. l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were." On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:55:49 EDT, John Svazic said:
Not sure if this is the best forum to ask this question, but I'm not having any luck trolling through Google, Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Does anyone know of any front-end UI (web or GUI) for editing a syslog-ng configuration file? I'm looking for something simple for users who are not familiar with the config file format to take on. Thanks!
The problem is that GUIs are good at doing syntax, not semantics. Unfortunately, the syntax is simple enough that people should be able to deal with it without much trouble. It's the *semantics* that are a problem, as anybody who reads this list would know - people asking for help with syntax errors are fairly rare, but people wondering why the messages aren't going where intended is a daily occurrence. And a GUI can't help you there.... _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html