Bug 620353

Description of problem:

When using syslog-ng from EPEL under CentOS5.5, setroubleshootd complains about
a missing syslog channel on startup

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

syslog-ng-2.1.4-1.el5
chkconfig-1.3.30.2-2.el5


How reproducible:

With setroubleshootd and syslog-ng installed under CentOS 5.5, we find that the boot sequence for setroubleshootd complains about a missing syslog channel. This may be reproduced post-boot by starting up setroubleshootd with the host's syslog server stopped, ( where that can be either syslogd or syslog-ng ).

By default, chkconfig/RHEL puts syslog-ng/EPEL in startup position 26 instead of 18, which is AFTER setroubleshootd. By removing some of the LSB init block in the syslog-ng init script, it is possible to "kludge" it to run at start point 18 so that setroubleshoot stops complaining.

In the example invocations of chkconfig below, /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5 contains the original init script, whereas /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.repaired just has the LSB Required-Start/Required-Stop clauses removed.


The implication is that the syslog-ng init script works perfectly happily under Fedora, but the same init script under RHEL5/CentOS5.5 sometimes confuses RHEL5's chkconfig.


[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ sudo chkconfig --level 0123456 syslog-ng.epel5 off
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ sudo chkconfig --level 345 syslog-ng.epel5 on
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/???syslog-ng.epel5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc0.d/K74syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc1.d/K74syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc2.d/K74syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc3.d/S26syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc4.d/S26syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc5.d/S26syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug  2 10:25 /etc/rc6.d/K74syslog-ng.epel5 -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.epel5*
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ grep chkconfig /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5
# chkconfig: - 12 88
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 


[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ sudo chkconfig --level 0123456 syslog-ng.repaired off
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ sudo chkconfig --level 345 syslog-ng.repaired on
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/???syslog-ng.repaired
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc0.d/K88syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc1.d/K88syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc2.d/K88syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc3.d/S12syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc4.d/S12syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc5.d/S12syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug  2 10:26 /etc/rc6.d/K88syslog-ng.repaired -> ../init.d/syslog-ng.repaired*
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ sudo chkconfig --del syslog-ng.repaired
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ grep chkconfig /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.repaired
# chkconfig: - 12 88
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ diff -u /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5 /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.repaired   
--- /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5	2009-03-24 17:08:49.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.repaired	2010-07-22 15:27:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides: $syslog
-# Required-Start: $local_fs
-# Required-Stop: $local_fs
 # Short-Description: Next-generation syslog server
 # Description: syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but
 #     with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ egrep "Provides|Required" /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/lvm2-monitor:# Provides: 
/etc/init.d/netfs:# Provides: $local_fs $remote_fs
/etc/init.d/network:# Provides: $network
/etc/init.d/syslog:# Provides: $syslog
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:# Provides: $syslog
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5:# Provides: $syslog
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5:# Required-Start: $local_fs
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.epel5:# Required-Stop: $local_fs
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.repaired:# Provides: $syslog
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools:# Provides: VMware_Tools
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools:# Required-Start:
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools:# Required-Stop: $network
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ chkconfig --list netfs 
netfs          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ 



[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$ ls -l /etc/rc3.d/S*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 22 13:39 /etc/rc3.d/S02lvm2-monitor -> ../init.d/lvm2-monitor*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 23  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S03sysstat -> ../init.d/sysstat*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S05kudzu -> ../init.d/kudzu*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S08iptables -> ../init.d/iptables*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov  6  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S10network -> ../init.d/network*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S11auditd -> ../init.d/auditd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S12restorecond -> ../init.d/restorecond*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 22 15:44 /etc/rc3.d/S12syslog-ng -> ../init.d/syslog-ng*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S13mcstrans -> ../init.d/mcstrans*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 22 14:55 /etc/rc3.d/S19vmware-tools -> ../init.d/vmware-tools*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 22 13:40 /etc/rc3.d/S22messagebus -> ../init.d/messagebus*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov  6  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S23setroubleshoot -> ../init.d/setroubleshoot*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S26lm_sensors -> ../init.d/lm_sensors*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S55sshd -> ../init.d/sshd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov  6  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S56rawdevices -> ../init.d/rawdevices*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S58ntpd -> ../init.d/ntpd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 21 13:42 /etc/rc3.d/S80sendmail -> ../init.d/sendmail*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S90crond -> ../init.d/crond*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S95anacron -> ../init.d/anacron*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May  8  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S98haldaemon -> ../init.d/haldaemon*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov  6  2009 /etc/rc3.d/S99local -> ../rc.local*
[whatever@standard-build-centos-5-5 ~]$