[syslog-ng]new Fedora/Redhat init script

Balazs Scheidler syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:35:57 +0100


On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:45 -0500, 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 contrib directory and remove the two existing old and outdated Redhat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.

Sounds fine, can you send me the exact files I should add and where? I'm
not that good at RPM packaging.

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Bazsi