[syslog-ng] Reliability of Remote logging via TCP/Syslog-NG

[Nate Campi]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:24:14PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> One other problem is that whenever the server shuts down the connection
> the client drops a _single_ log message. This is not easy to fix, at
> least not in the 1.6.x branch. See the mailing list archives for more
> information. 

I think we can work around it. Have syslog-ng send a one byte dummy
message when a connection is brought up, that a receiving syslog-ng will
always discard. I had to do something like this in a performance testing
suite I wrote, and I see no reason syslog-ng itself can't do it.

Sound reasonable?
-- 
Nate

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