[CentOS] [OT] eventlog-to-syslog

Wed May 6 21:17:38 UTC 2015
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Wed, May 6, 2015 3:26 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> <rant>
> So, we've got a couple of WinDoze servers, and we getting logs from them.
> Except the logs seem to stop on occasion. My manager set me onto this (I
> *loathe* WinDoze, but someone's gotta do it), and I finally found out that
> a previous co-worker installed eventlog-to-syslog, which seems to be
> hosted in google code. And it *seems* to have come from Purdue Univ.
>
> So < found the readme, and wanted to cut down the verbosity. There's a
> startup flag for this.
> The log levels are:
>   1: critical
>   2: error
>   3: warning
>   4: info
>   0: everything/verbosity
>
> The start flag that you can give it is the "minimum" log level. And no, I
> did *not* write those levels out of order. Can *anyone* explain to me in
> what number system 0 is *not* less than 3?....
> </rant>
>

That's a good one, Mark! You made my day. Didn't you know that Windows
programmers the only ones who count 1,2,3,4,5,... [all normal programmers
count 0,1,2,3,4,5,... AFAIK]. I wonder how at all they got "0" in their
levels ;-)

Valeri

>       mark


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