[syslog-ng]postfix requiring syslog?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:34:13PM +0000, netsec novice wrote:
> I am using SuSE 8.1 to build a cental syslog server and have installed 
> syslog-ng.  I need to run postfix in order to send alerts.  Now that I have 
> disabled syslog and enabled/installed syslog-ng, postfix no longer starts 
> on its own at boot.  When I attempt to start it manually, it responds that 
> syslog is required to be running to start postfix.. do I want to start 
> syslog?  If I say yes then postfix starts fine but I don't really want to 
> be running syslog AND syslog-ng do I?  Linux is new to me so I apologize 
> for my ignorance.  Is there a simple work-around to tell postfix to use 
> syslog-ng rather than syslog?  I guess I don't understand where this 
> dependency comes from.  Any help is appreciated.

syslog-ng should be a dropin replacement for postfix, provided it is
correctly configured. you might also need to note that postfix chroots
itself under /var/spool/postfix so you might need to add a source to
syslog-ng for postfix to log correctly.

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Bazsi
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