If you were wondering what happened to the 68k/MacTCP/System 7.5.2 or less support in Syslogd 2.1.4, here is the explanation.

The main reason for dropping support of these technologies, is that Syslogd does not work with them. There are bugs in the 68k version of Syslogd (ones that won't allow it to be used), and I can't get MacTCP support to work on the PPC version (it doesn't crash, but no connection is opened). Trying to fix some of these bugs is pretty much impossible, and others are just not worth the effort.

First of all I do not have access to a real 68k Macintosh, therefore it is hard for me to write a working version. Previously I had tested the 68k version on my PowerMac, and of course it worked fine, but I have heard from a tester that it does not work on a real 68k machine and in fact crashes real hard. Secondly, I did an informal survey of people who had registered Syslogd, and ALL of them were using PowerPC machines.

As far as MacTCP support on PowerMac's is concerned, I just do not want to spend the time on this problem when I could be enhancing Syslogd. And again, the survey indicated that no one was using this configuration. (One person was using System 7.6.1, and the rest were using some version of OS 8, all of which require Open Transport.)

The System 7.5.3 requirement came about because of the Open Transport requirement. System 7.5.3 is the first System (besides the PCI only 7.5.2) to ship with Open Transport installed as part of the OS. Therefore System 7.5.3 is a logical cutoff.

I do apologize if anyone actually wanted to use Syslogd with one of the above configurations, but I have limited time and resources, and just cannot afford to support these older technologies.

Brian Bergstrand
11/15/1999