"Lee, Steve" <steve.lee@emory.edu> writes:
I want to be able to run traditional syslogd and syslog-ng simultaneously for system logs and for a network monitoring application, respectively. What can I do to prevent each from affecting the other (specifically, preventing syslog-ng from killing syslogd by default)?
To run them side by side, all you need to do is configure syslog-ng so that it does not try to read from, or write to the same resources syslogd does. The killing of syslogd is probably done by the packaging, how to prevent that, I'm afraid I can't tell, I'm not familiar with RHEL. If it helps, we probably have a similar situation in Debian, where the various syslog daemons conflict with each other, and only one can be installed at a time. To work around this issue, the easiest way is to build a custom package, that doesn't do this, and ship a configuration along with it, that does not conflict with the syslogd's config. -- |8]