Guys I haven't touched syslog-ng since I last installed 1.6 2 years ago on RHEL4. I'm trying to upgrade to 2.x and I noticed that the init script for RH you provided in the contrib dir actually starts up syslon-ng and klogd. I thought syslog-ng was a total replacement for syslog including klodg ?

This might be some kind of overlooking on your part: there is the contrib/rhel-packaging directory which contains a much newer init script than the old, deprecated one just under contrib. I suggest using contrib/rhel-packaging. If you want to build your own RPMs you can use syslog-ng.spec.bb which resides in the top directory, this spec file use the proper files.

I checked the older script I have for version 1.6 and sure enough it doesn't start klogd. I'm confused now as to whether I've been running this the wrong way or if you simply rewrote syslog-ng to rely on klogd again.

Can anyone elaborate ?

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