Review request: syslog-ng (syslog replacement daemon)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 10:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 08:22:37AM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > >   * Changes a file from another package
> > >     (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog from the sysklogd rpm)
> > I know people (with good reason!) try to avoid using alternatives, but 
> > isn't this a good case to use them?
> 
> I haven't looked at this particular case, but if this is the only change
> needed, might there be a way to generalize the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file
> in the syslog RPM?

My guess (just from a quick look at /etc/logrotate.d/syslog) is that
this is due to the kill -HUP of the syslog process.  Having syslog-ng
use the same pid file could work, but could have other consequences that
I'm not thinking of at the moment.  Especially as I haven't looked at
syslog-ng in a long time :-)

Jeremy