rsyslog is in F8

Peter Vrabec pvrabec at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 11:20:55 UTC 2007


Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Tomas Mraz wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>  
>>> Peter Vrabec wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> rsyslog was just built in rawhide.
>>>>
>>>> It obsoletes sysklogd, so sysklogd in not running anymore and is erased
>>>> after update. Note, that rsyslog won't start automatically. You need to
>>>> do #service rsyslog start,(or restart the box). This problem should be
>>>> solved by anaconda during upgrade from FC->F8.
>>>>       
>>> What happens if I upgrade using yum?
>>>     
>>
>> You won't have running system log daemon until you restart the system or
>> run service rsyslog start manually.
>>   
> I'd say that since sysklogd is erased, rsylogd should be automatically
> enabled and started. Yes, I know the packaging recommendations, but I
> think that in this case an exception should be accepted.

I agree, but I don't know any nice and secure way we can do it. Since we
replace sysklogd in rawhide and rsyslogd will be installed during fresh
F8 installation I don't see this is a big problem.






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