I also agree with this. sysklogd is an old piece of software, with no new releases since 2001, and can cause deadlocks if used together with a local nameserver (see here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind- users&m=106550411521807&w=2), or delays in logging if it has to do reverse DNS lookups. syslog-ng allows for DNS lookups to be disabled, and has many other features. It should at least be provided as an alternative.
SuSE has provided support for using syslog-ng since at least 9.1 (through a generic 'syslog' initscript), and other distros (Debian included, as seen in the link below) are considering a replacement for sysklogd: http://www.gatago.com/linux/debian/devel/17360768.html -- syslog-ng causes ubuntu-minimal to be removed. https://launchpad.net/bugs/62803 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
