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| author | Christophe Trussardi <chris@teria.org> | 2011-12-11 13:19:47 -0600 |
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| committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-12-18 00:07:45 -0200 |
| commit | c7dedc98824f1aec760ef542e39f2289cb469f9c (patch) | |
| tree | bd100e2f170de3448d61e051b21fb58ddac22c3f /system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE | |
| parent | a13590db46cdd8b1f3c6cb1fb0e58ef6850c9a8b (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-c7dedc98824f1aec760ef542e39f2289cb469f9c.tar.xz | |
system/rsyslog: Added (enhanced syslogd)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE b/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6095c5312889 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +README.SLACKWARE for rsyslog + +The package contains the /etc/rc.d/rc.rsyslogd init script which will +start rsyslogd. + +Since rsyslog basically supersedes the klogd/syslogd daemons, the stock +Slackware sysklogd package should be removed and its leftovers cleaned up: + + 1. Remove useless logrotate configuration: + + rm /etc/logrotate.d/syslog + + 2. Make rsyslog start automatically on boot, without modifications to rc.M: + + cd /etc/rc.d && ln -sf rc.rsyslogd rc.syslog + cd /usr/sbin && ln -sf rsyslogd syslogd + +To make the transition even easier, you will find /etc/rsyslog.conf in the +proper format, which was converted from sysklogd's syslog.conf. + +/etc/rc.d/rc.rsyslogd is written to emulate syslogd. To prevent rc.inet1 +from attempting to run rc.syslog again, rc.syslogd will copy/remove the +/var/run/syslogd.pid file on successful start/stop invocations. + |