[syslog-ng] Running syslogd and syslog-ng simultaneously

[Gergely Nagy]

"Lee, Steve" <steve.lee at emory.edu> writes:

> I want to be able to run traditional syslogd and syslog-ng
> simultaneously for system logs and for a network monitoring
> application, respectively. What can I do to prevent each from
> affecting the other (specifically, preventing syslog-ng from killing
> syslogd by default)?

To run them side by side, all you need to do is configure syslog-ng so
that it does not try to read from, or write to the same resources
syslogd does.

The killing of syslogd is probably done by the packaging, how to prevent
that, I'm afraid I can't tell, I'm not familiar with RHEL.

If it helps, we probably have a similar situation in Debian, where the
various syslog daemons conflict with each other, and only one can be
installed at a time. To work around this issue, the easiest way is to
build a custom package, that doesn't do this, and ship a configuration
along with it, that does not conflict with the syslogd's config.

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