[syslog-ng]Automatic starting of syslog-ng

[Jeffery P. Humes]

There is a contributed init script in the source directory:
    (I know it says RedHat-7.3, but it will work for 9)

# copy the init script into place
cp -p <your_source_dir>/syslog-ng-1.6.5/contrib/init.d.RedHat-7.3 
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng

# make it executable (if it isn't already)
chmod +x /etc/init.d/syslog-ng

# turn off syslog (if you are completely replacing it)
chkconfig syslog off

# turn on syslog-ng at reboot time
chkconfig syslog-ng on

# stop syslog and start syslog-ng
/etc/init.d/syslog stop
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start


Thomas Reidy wrote:

>Running on Red Hat 9..  the application is running, logging perfectly..  
>
>I built it w/o the RPMs, and need to know how to get this to start
>automatically during startup..  its been a long day, so this may be
>obvious..
>
>Am I right to assume if I reboot the box, I won't get logging until I
>manually start the script?
>
>I could just put something simple in /etc/init.d, etc but need to know
>what the file should say..  the init scripts never just seem to launch
>the programs...
>
>Thanks in advance...
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