[syslog-ng] Re : Re: Installer feedback

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:03 -0400, srainville at videotron.ca wrote:
> No problem,
>  
> I used the rpm installer in both cases for SuSE. Concerning rcsyslog,
> the symlink still points to /etc/init.d/syslog instead
> of /etc/init.d/syslog-ng. Nothing uses rcsyslog to start syslog-ng,
> it's just in SuSE's documentation that services can be restarted with
> "rcservice-name" restart, so I tried it out. I changed the symlink and
> it works.

Ah, I didn't know that. I'll make sure that we fix this. Thanks for
reporting it.

>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Steve
> 
> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
> Date: Mardi, 14 Avril 2009, 7:28
> Objet: Re: [syslog-ng] Installer feedback
> À: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thank you very much. Your feedback is really appreciated, I'm 
> > just a
> > little bit lagged behind my todo items, thus the delay in the 
> > response.
> > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:23 -0400, srainville at videotron.ca wrote:
> > > Here's my feedback on the installers:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > RHEL 4.x (32 and 64) syslog-ng server installer: No problems. 
> > Replaced> an older (2.0.4) version of syslog-ng without any issues.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > SuSE 10SP1 - 32bit syslog-ng client installer: Installed 
> > correctly but
> > > didn’t replace the existing syslog-ng installation (1.6.8) 
> > which ships
> > > with SuSE 10SP1.
> > 
> > Did you use the .rpm or the .run based installer? Neither one is
> > intended to completely remove the system supplied syslog-ng 
> > package, it
> > merely "disables" it and runs the newly installed syslog-ng instead.
> > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > SuSE 10SP1 - 32bit syslog-ng server installer: Installed
> correctly,
> > > replaces the current syslog-ng implementation 
> > 
> > hmm.. it should behave the same as the 'client' installer,
> effectively
> > the two packages are the same, except for a few missing files.
> > 
> > > and moves the configuration to /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-
> > ng.conf. It
> > > didn't replace/remove the rcsyslog script. Must now
> > > use /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng to stop/start/restart the
> process.
> > 
> > Hm.. the installer should've created an /etc/init.d/syslog-ng script
> > which you can use to control the process. The rcsyslog script is 
> > only a
> > symlink. Does it cause any problems that it is still pointing to 
> > the old
> > syslog init script?
> > 
> > suse-10:~ # ls -la /sbin/rcsyslog
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-09-25 14:45 /sbin/rcsyslog -> 
> > /etc/init.d/syslog
> > Is there an application that launches syslog-ng with this script?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bazsi
> > 
> >
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