[syslog-ng]Syslog-ng on Boot

[William Yodlowsky]

On Tuesday, January 22, todd glassey wrote:
> I would suggest that the scripts be modified to test for proper operations
> of the daemon as well. If it hangs in startup or somesuch the Admin needs to
> know about it. This is really true of INITTAB based services I think.

True.  I threw it out as a concept rather than an implementation
recommendation, although my post didn't reflect that... apologies.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Yodlowsky" <wyodlows@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
> To: <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Syslog-ng on Boot
> 
> > On Tuesday, January 22, jesse.keefe@convergys.com wrote:
> > > For those who asked about starting syslog-ng on boot, here is what I did
> > > for Solaris 8.
> > > I simply modified the /etc/rc2.d/S74syslog script:
> >
> > Another alternative that works well for me is adding this to
> > /etc/inittab:
> >
> > sl:234:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -F -C /logs -u someuser -g
> somegroup

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