Florent Guillaume writes: > Except that syslog (with all its faults) is designed for reliable > logging, which means that if you send to your log 1000 lines, syslog > will sync 1000 times thus trashing your disks. Decent "syslog" implementations (such as the one distributed with SuSE Linux) let you configure whether a log file will be synched after every message. Dieter