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esyslog - an Erlang syslog server

esyslog aims to be an extensible and robust drop-in replacement for the standard syslogd daemon.

Syslog is a network protocol for sending log messages. The current standard is RFC 3164. There are many implementations of the syslog protocol like syslogd, rsyslog and syslog-ng, but none of them are very friendly to extend unless you want to write C code. esyslog hopes to match previous implementations in features while taking advantage of Erlang's robustness and hot-code loading. esyslog will (eventually) be extensible via Erlang or a different high level dynamic language.

Dependencies

• Merlke
• Erlang R13B03

Running

Assuming you have all the dependencies, you can run:

merlke start

Which will start a local esyslog server listening at port 7777, using the configuration at ./etc/syslog.conf

Roadmap

• Improve syslog config parser to support all syslog.conf syntax
• Implement remote logging
• Create plugin framework