[syslog-ng] Init scripts

[Thomas Wollner]

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Hi,

thanks for providing the build instructions.

If I follow them I create a package which misses:

- - update-patterndb script
- - syslog-ng-ctl
- - Debian LSB Header in init script


Maybe algernon want to publish the scripts with which madhouse
packages are created?


Thanks in advance,

Tom


On 27.01.2012 11:41, Pal Tamas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:54:47PM -0800, Chris Johnson wrote:
>> My apologies, I know this is probably a trivial question. I
>> trying to install syslog-ng for the first time from source. It
>> appears to install okay, but the config file and init scripts are
>> not installed during install. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and tried
>> to copy the init files from the debian folder, but this does not
>> launch when I run /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start. Is there something
>> else I need to configure? Copying the wrong files? Any help is
>> greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Chris
> Hi,
> 
> The initscript in the debian directory only works, if you build 
> syslog-ng with the settings required for a debian package, which
> are different than the standard ./configure settings. (The init
> script expects the syslog-ng binary to be located in /sbin. If it's
> not there, it'll exit without an error.)
> 
> If you don't want to bother it, I recommend building a debian
> package from the source, which both contain the syslog-ng binaries
> in proper place and it'll register syslog-ng init script with
> upstart during the install. For this, have to take the following
> steps:
> 
> 1. Install the build-essential and fakeroot packages: # sudo
> apt-get install build-essential fakeroot
> 
> 2. into the extracted source and first run dpkg-checkbuilddeps, to
> see what other packages you need to install before building
> syslog-ng. # dpkg-checkbuilddeps 3. once all needed packages has
> been installed, build the syslog-ng debian package: 
> #dpkg-buildpackage -b
> 
> 4. After the succesful build, you'll find the .deb package in the 
> source's parent directory. To install it, you have to run # dpkg -i
> <packagefilename>
> 
> Be aware, that this will remove the current syslogger and starts
> the newly installed syslog-ng. If you want to get rid of syslog-ng
> just reinstall the old syslogger using apt-get.
> 
> If  you don't want to build the deb package, you have to modify
> the initscript by replacing all instances of '/sbin/syslog-ng' with
> the proper path to the binary and the content of the PIDFILE
> variable if needed.
> 
> If it works, stop the current syslogger (from now I assume it's 
> rsyslog*): # invoke-rc.d rsyslog stop De-register it: # update-rc.d
> rsyslog remove Register syslog-ng: # update-rc.d syslog-ng defaults
> 10 90 finally start it: # invoke-rc.d syslog-ng start
> 
> * If your default syslogger is sysklogd, then you both have to stop
> and remove the sysklogd and klogd services.
> 
> BE aware that in this case, the disabled sysloggers will be
> reactivated the next time their packages will be updated by Ubuntu
> and you run apt-get upgrade.
> 
> Regards,
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