[syslog-ng] Win syslog-agent PRI

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Jan 31 10:40:21 CET 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:22 -0800, Eli Stair wrote:
> I'm curious about this: though the source is not "open", is it still available 
> for review/compilation, or is the windows agent distributed as a pre-compiled 
> binary only?  I'm curious because while I'd prefer (in theory) to use the 
> syslog-ng agent on windows machines to forward to my syslog-ng servers... one 
> of the benefits of using the available ones (evtsys, snare) is the ability to 
> at least diagnose, resolve, and post back fixes when necessary.
> 
> Obviously whatever your company decides is its right, but my policy is not to 
> run free (unsupported) binary-only software because of the inability to at 
> least post a sensible bug report.
> 
> Looking forward to checking it out either way however, since I'm also not 
> against buying software ;)

Thanks for this information, this is really useful. I'll try to convince
my collegues about this matter.

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Bazsi



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