From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nm1ZI-0001PC-OY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:05:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8EC6E0A94; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD61FE0A97 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1536187ewy.26 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:05:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=P+12/VaoYQ3cH/mT24QzBl3D3OV9quzJgeklx13oVXg=; b=D2VB9+6tpdKYYUebzi3+t1CxWZ1/F4WedE5iRuz++l1IZWrj6Inu8ks0dNmh4Xc/0p rQpJ7uTlX+si8YcYn57Jd29giHeKekIt/XAwWSWZRr4gotKzzu3mGyjXQaG4P1uAhtn3 x7ud9HP9lRF8v4kxiGR7KODQyT4QvkoE1mUIA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=QPH8sb+UBnDAytZF8GiMB7XUgH/bOi9hsIr9utF8zSc5GEvST0KvEDTXaexIpmIuq5 iU72AhFMhv8ZEOswvIUvZ6TmQMDkgQ/U9Je9cwZWTf3f6YXZm6nxO3ZVhf6/mxLoPzs+ pH3lkcEIDyGWfZZZV7DKbwxVKmT6dQdyXLj74= Received: by 10.213.103.146 with SMTP id k18mr2992990ebo.5.1267434311686; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:05:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2120862ewy.3.2010.03.01.01.05.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:05:10 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:02:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <87tyt3g7rr.fsf@newsguy.com> <201002282350.39518.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87zl2sbrsm.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87zl2sbrsm.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003011102.40790.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 40b0e70f-6263-4bdc-96ff-259549b173e7 X-Archives-Hash: e276cdb6c077fe237ad30489885487ce On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards > > compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that > > comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work. > > A little turn towards OT: > so what are using your opensolaris machines for? > The advantages of zfs? I had Solaris, not OpenSolaris. I've been steadily reducing my Solaris machines (mostly because of the horrendous cost) and not many are left. Other teams here still have quite a few, mostly for proprietary ISP monitoring stuff, Oracle, VoIP billing systems - that kind of thing. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com