Bug 400671

Summary:	The syslog-ng an rsyslog packages should conflict
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component:	rsyslog	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	jose.p.oliveira.oss, pvrabec, theinric
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Description Tomas Smetana 2007-11-27 10:16:32 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #400661 +++

Description of problem:

Both the syslog-ng and rsyslog packages have the same logrotate configuration
file, which causes logrotate to find duplicties for the system logs and refuses
to rotate them.  This may lead to a disk space exhaustion.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

syslog-ng-2.0.5-1.fc8
rsyslog-1.19.6-3.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install both the loggers and watch the emails sent by logwatch -- you'll see
something like this:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/messages
error: found error in /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog
/var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron , skipping
  
Actual results:
Logs are not rotated due to duplicite configurations.

Expected results:
Logs are rotated.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2007-11-27 11:14:06 UTC

Jose, do you agree to use "conflict: syslog-ng/rsyslog"? I'm fine with this 
solution.

Comment 2 Peter Vrabec 2007-11-29 12:58:37 UTC

fixed in rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8

Comment 3 Michal Jaegermann 2007-12-11 21:52:21 UTC

Well, it should possibly add also obsoletes for syslog-ng.
Otherwise if both packages are installed then an update to
rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8 fails.

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2007-12-11 21:56:15 UTC

Oh, and this "conflict" makes syslog-ng package practically useless.
Tons of packages depends on rsyslog so removing it is not feasible.
It appear that a better coordination between these packages would
be needed.