[Linux-ha-dev] What best name for the Heartbeat v2 log daemon ?

[Joe Bill]

In many pages of the Linux-HA documentation, we can find repeatingly either expressions "HA logging daemon" or "Heartbeat logging deamon", for what
http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStartedV2 describes as a "logging broker" that "makes the synchronous calls on behalf of its clients."

For the sake of unambiguous construeing I would like to suggest the replacement in all documentation of the expression "logging daemon" by a more accurate term when describing the "new in version 2 HeartbeatLogDaemon" http://www.linux-ha.org/HeartbeatLogDaemon.

This, to clearly distinguish this daemon and it's specific features from what are called "system log" services such as syslog, syslog-ng or rsyslog.
These packages generally contain:




First, is the daemon really a "broker" ?

Isn't it rather a "proxy", or a "relay", or a "buffered relay" ?

Second