16 Aug
2024
16 Aug
'24
11:21 p.m.
On 2024-08-14 12:20, Clem Cole wrote:
Did that idea ever grow any significant legs?
I guess the word here is significant. It certainly was used where it
made sense. In the CAD group, we had simulations that might run for a
few days. We used to call the mailer every so often to send status
and sometimes do something like a checkpoint. It lead to Sam writing
syslogd, particularly after Joy created UNIX domain sockets. But I
can say we used it a number of places in systems oriented or long
running code before syslogd as a scheme to log errors, deal with stuff.
Another correction: I wrote syslogd as part of the delivermail/sendmail
project, but I did intentionally make it generic so it could be used by
other services. Interestingly, I even got it to work on v6 using
something called "mpx files".
eric