[logs] syslog config file format poll

[Andreux Fort (あんどりゅー)]

On 9/6/07, Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> One of the big questions I face is the configuration file format.

If it's not a programming language, it's a data structure.  If it's a
data structure, making it look like the accepted syntax for Python
dictionaries (which is similar to Perl hash syntax, of course) works
very well with even mildly clueful folks -- you needn't explain the
syntax (only indicate what it is), only the data types.  My present
employer has a vast number of automated systems and many are
configured this way, and it works very well.  Validating is also
simple, because you can write test cases for a data structure very
easily.

XML?  I don't need this.

-a