Bug 1297878

Summary:	Parallel install of rsyslog and syslog-ng broken
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Component:	rsyslog	Assignee:	Radovan Sroka <rsroka>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	jeff.raber, jlieskov, lkundrak, mah.darade, pvrabec, terje.rosten
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Description Tomas Heinrich 2016-01-12 16:57:38 UTC

Splitting of from bug 1224972.

(In reply to Terje Røsten from comment #18)
> Hi Tomas,
>
> this change breaks parallel install of rsyslog and syslog-ng.
> 
> rsyslog and syslog-ng both uses /var/run/syslogd.pid as pidfile,
> as an side effect they can both install identical versions of
> /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and both can be installed at the same time.
> 
> When adding rsyslog specific calls into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog you break
> this design.
> 
> rsyslog as of rsyslog-8.10.0-1.fc23.x86_64 uses pidfile /var/run/syslogd.pid
> and the previous line of 
> 
> /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
> 
> still works.
> 
> { If you refuse to revert this change, at least mark syslog-ng as conflict 
>   rsyslog, this way dnf can remove rsyslog when installing syslog-ng. }

Comment 1 Tomas Heinrich 2016-01-12 17:12:35 UTC

In my opinion, this whole setup has, cumulatively, created more confusion than good.
I think it would be better to somehow split the preconceptions of rsyslog and syslog-ng about the file layout and content. Such a change should be appropriate for rawhide.

In f23, I guess I'll just revert the logrotate file to the f22 version so that it doesn't cause any more confusion.

Comment 2 Terje Røsten 2016-01-22 23:33:18 UTC

Hi Tomas!

This sounds good to me.

I don't care much how this is fixed, the old concept is not that novel.
However it's important that a solution is found soon.

Btw: The problem is present in RHEL7/EPEL also I think.

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