[syslog-ng] anybody using flags(fallback) ?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:17 -0800, Evan Rempel wrote:
> Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As I wrote earlier I'm in the process of redesigning syslog-ng
> > internals, and some log statement flags are way more difficult to
> > implement than with the previous model. 
>  >
> > "fallback" -- as I see this can perfectly be substituted by a series of
> > lost statement each with "final" flag. 
> > 
> > Using the final flag is also faster, as syslog-ng does not have to
> > evaluate filters.
> > 
> > What do you think? Does anyone use fallback in a way that is not
> > possible using final?
> 
> Technically speaking, fallback *can* always be implimented using a combonation
> of final flags and a non-final statement at the end, but it requires carefull
> attention to detail, and places a dependency on the order of the log statements
> in the configuration file. I don't like having a dependency on the order
> of the log statements.
> 
> I would favor an easy to maintain configuration file over a challenge during
> design of the code. We have already ended up with configurations that
> dropped some messages, and without the fallback, it would be very difficult
> to track down these events.

In the meanwhile I came up with a solution that'll work for both final
and fallback, so as it seems no reason to drop it. :)

-- 
Bazsi