@russnelson Gonna sleep on that thought exercise
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3 hours 34 min ago
@markdrago The thing that I want to not need cygwin is an OSS cmdline mssql client. All the "standard" unix stuff runs just dandy on windows
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3 hours 43 min ago
@ccaum really? I never saw that behavior - then again we fed syslog-ng with regular (UDP) sysloggers 'cuz we didn't really NEED reliability…
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5 hours 26 min ago
@ripienaar mmh, yes and no: You can pipe stuff off to arbitrary programs for free. And those programs can feed databases, etc. :-)
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5 hours 32 min ago
RT @shiflett: “Foursquare just ousted Twitter as the mayor of Downtime.” :-) /by @iscottie
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5 hours 32 min ago
@ripienaar and syslog-ng is good at all that, but deploying it everywhere induces configuration suckage
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5 hours 37 min ago
@ripienaar OK granted. If you only use it on the one log-receiver server it's not so bad tho (if you don't mind UDP to get the msgs there)
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5 hours 39 min ago
@ripienaar you didn't like the -ng config syntax? I found it reasonable enough (but I only used it on the log-slurper)
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5 hours 41 min ago
@sycobuny surprised its Java. Altova xmlspy is pure c++.
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5 hours 43 min ago
@ripienaar Check out syslog-ng - It can do all of that & isn't TOO horrible to use :)
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5 hours 47 min ago
