[syslog-ng] Changing sysconf dir ?!

Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external fheigl at munichre.com
Tue Apr 18 16:59:52 CEST 2006


hi,

> Does it make sense to rework the "--sysconfdir" option  of  
> configure, so that I can define the actual directory where 
> syslog-ng.conf is being placed ?
> 
> $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/usr/local/syslog-ng/etc 
> $ make && make install
> 
> -> /usr/local/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
> 
> where it should look like
> 
> /usr/local/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf
> (without the unneccessary/additional 'syslog-ng' directory in 
> /usr/local/syslog-ng/etc) 

I stumbled over that issue and ended up using the config file path
command line option instead, which is not a very beautiful way
of site localization :)

florian


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