Anton Koldaev <koldaevav@gmail.com> writes:
Oh man. Who told you it's any good to use web interface when building a complex configuration? Everybody who needs automatisation for building syslog-ng conf files are already using Opscode-Chef/Puppet/other frameworks. Even using a good text editor it's much easier to build complex configurations for such software as Syslog-NG.
There's another use case you probably have not thought of: quickly hacking together a config for testing purposes. I could use my trusty old editor to get the job done, but syslog-ng.conf is verbose. Very verbose, and for me, it is a welcome change to be able to click together a config. It is probably slower than writing by hand, but much less annoying, and less annoyance is always a good thing. I found the configurator to be very useful in my daily work, in cases when I don't need overly complex configs (and most often, I do not), but something simple I can click together with one hand, while sipping coffee. This thing allows me to do that, and does so marvellously fine. -- |8]