[syslog-ng] colored messages

[Jan Schaumann]

Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
 
> Any other opinions about this colorization stuff?

FWIW, I have no use for color coding of messages, and I also agree with
other posters that sticking to the "do one thing and do it well" mantra
is a good idea.

Without so much as looking at the suggested patch, would it be possible
to abstract the color coding part into a standalone tool?  Something
that takes a configuration file with regex=>color mappings, for example,
allowing any user to color code any content via (pardon the uuoc):

cat file | colorize

That would seem useful for all sorts of applications, not just syslog
messages.

-Jan
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