Simplify some print statements
Allow the user to skip the sanity check
Rework the VCS stuff
Move the old logging code to its proper location
Get GitRepo working
Clean up exception text
Add logger argument to log()

...so that syslog can be prepped before use
Cleanup and improvements
Change some names
Fix arguments and comments; simplify a few things
Fix variable name
Restore `named` executable location settings
Improve logging
Fix some mistakes
Adjust a couple things
Remove references to logger
Change status() for no particular reason
Change a couple things
Use special syslog
Some cleanup