I'm not that worried about missing stuff if syslog-ng started late since I don't reboot that often. Regardless, do you just start it with /path/syslog-ng & ??? ...or... are there necessary command line switches you us that are a good idea??? chris On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:27:35PM -0500, Michael Rogan wrote:

Chris,

That works but you may find some things don't get logged because it wasn't started earlier.

You can create a script and put it in /etc/init.d/syslog-ng (check the syslog one on how to write start and stop scripts, basically just change syslog to syslog-ng).

Put a comment near the top like # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 # description: Syslog-ng for logging

When you run chkconfig --add syslog-ng

The comment tells it to put it in the init startups 2,3,4,5 and at level 20 (near the beginning of the boot process) and 80 at stop (near the end of the shutdown).

You may want to do a chkconfig --del syslog to stop syslog from starting.

Michael

BTW: Do you guys get to use our devices there yet? Being in information systems to the Navy I would guess you would have seen them.

Michael J. Rogan BlackBerry Engineering Supervisor Research In Motion www.rim.net www.blackberry.net

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-----Original Message----- From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> To: Michael Rogan <mrogan@rim.net> Sent: Tue Feb 11 20:04:43 2003 Subject: syslog-ng

Michael

I saw your name on the syslog-ng mailing list and was hoping I could humbly ask you a newbie question about it if you don't mind. I read manual and could not find this question answered...

Can I just start syslog-ng daemon from /etc/rc.d/rc.local (in Linux) like this...

/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng &

i.e. 1. Do I need any switches on command line? 2. Is there any danger in not starting logging sooner in boot process??

Thanks!

Chris

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