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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] rsyslog alternative
Le 09/12/2025 à 09:36, Andrew Bower a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:18:35PM +1100, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
>>     Any suggestions on a recommended alternative to rsyslog? It seems April
>>     1st has come early.
>>     https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-goes-ai-first-a-new-chapter-begins/
> The Debian Logging Team was formed to address this very problem!
>
>    https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Logging
>
> The wiki page enumerates the available alternatives. The intention is to
> add documentation that will help users who are switching logging
> daemons, identifying notable differences and aspects of configuration of
> which to be aware. I know that contributions to that effort would be
> welcome.


    Looking for alternatives to rsyslog in the package repository
(still in Daedalus), I see:

    busybox-syslogd
    inetutils-syslogd
    rsyslog
    syslog-ng

    I imagine inetutils-syslogd is the legacy syslogd server. I guess
it doesn't provide any of the dispatching facilities of rsyslog.
busybox-syslogd is rather dedicated to diskless boxes; it can, at least
forward the messages to a remote host, but the remote host needs a more
featurefull log mamagement.

    syslog-ng seems pretty rich also (as from the number of debian
packages).

--     Didier