[syslog-ng]new Fedora/Redhat init script

[Richard E. Perlotto II]

And then you would have two logrotate files for many of the same
files.  This is a worse situation.  Since syslog many times is
considered a base OS package it cannot be removed.

This means a lot of manual modification to clean out BOTH files
so that they are not stepping on each other.  Kind of defeats the
purpose of having a package install.


Richard

Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> Well, even though syslog and syslog-ng accomplish the same task, they
> are separate entities.  You could run both of them on your system if
> you wanted to.  I don't think you should replace a file that another
> package uses, so I think #3 is the only good answer.
> 
> P.
> 
> On 02/04/05, Richard E. Perlotto II wrote:
> 
>>There is really only three choices here:
>>
>>[1]	Edit the existing file which belongs to
>>	another package, but a package that serves
>>	the same function as this one.
>>[2]	You replace the file which is still affecting an
>>	existing package, but you would lose any custom
>>	changes in the file.
>>[3]	You create a new file which will most likely
>>	have duplicates with the old package which will
>>	cause other difficulties.
>>
>>Of these I think ti would be better to edit the existing
>>file to not lose any custom entries that may have been made,
>>and it has the least impact on the existing packages.
>>
>>
>>
>>Richard
>>
>>Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
>>
>>>It looks like we are both tackling the same problems.  Actually I wish
>>>I had known about your work previously as it would have saved me some
>>>time.
>>>
>>>Anyway, I think the important thing now is to get a new spec file and
>>>init script into the syslog-ng source tarball.  It looks like this is
>>>generated via autoconf so it needs to be converted to syslog-ng.spec.in
>>>(just put a couple substitutions in there).
>>>
>>>My big concern about the existing spec file in the tarball is it is
>>>seriously broken.  For example, it edits the existing syslog rotate
>>>file.  Changing another package's file like that is bad.
>>>
>>>And as far as the init script goes, I think we should put yours in the
>>>contrib directory and remove the two existing old and outdated Redhat
>>>init scripts.
>>>
>>>I've reviewed your source rpm and init script, and they incorporate
>>>all the fixes I need.
>>>
>>>Balazs, how does that sound to you?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>P.
>>>
>>>On 02/04/05, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>>Philip,
>>>>
>>>>I also have a patched configuration script and a working specfile
>>>>for Redhat/Fedora systems.
>>>>
>>>>The SRPM is available here:
>>>>https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1332
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>jpo
>>>>
>>>>| Attached is a new init script I wrote.  It's based on the existing
>>>>| init.d.Redhat and init.d.Redhat-7.3 scripts.  The main deficiency I
>>>>| wanted to correct was that the existing scripts do not properly
>>>>| implement 'reload' by sending a HUP to the running syslog-ng.  Other
>>>>| than that I just tried to clean the init script up and make it
>>>>| consistent with other Redhat-style init scripts.
>>>>|
>>>>| I'm calling this script init.d.Fedora since there were already those
>>>>| existing scripts.  However, I believe my script should work on any
>>>>| RedHat or Fedora system, so I would ask that you remove the existing
>>>>| scripts.
>>>>|
>>>>| Unless, of course, there's some functionality I'm missing in my
>>>>| script.
>>>>|
>>>>| Thanks,
>>>>| P.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>- --
>>>>José Pedro Oliveira
>>>>Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho
>>>>Tel: +351 253 604470 * Fax: +351 253 604471
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