Bug 498297 - Should not conflict with syslog-ng, rsyslog
Summary: Should not conflict with syslog-ng, rsyslog
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sysklogd
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeroen van Meeuwen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2009-04-29 19:08 UTC by Douglas E. Warner
Modified: 2010-06-28 12:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:16:07 UTC
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Description Douglas E. Warner 2009-04-29 19:08:27 UTC
It's been brought to my attention that sysklogd has been updated so it conflicts with rsyslog and syslog-ng; I think both packages have gone to a good deal of trouble so this should no longer be necessary, and I'm not sure why it was recently added to the F-11 branch.  Can you elaborate and/or remove it from all affected branches?

Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen 2009-05-04 01:53:12 UTC
This was not added recently, instead this has been the case ever since sysklogd was re-introduced. It conflicts deliberately since otherwise it conflicts on the file level (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog with the handling of /var/log/* files to be precise).

Not sure why someone would even want/need two sysloggers anyway, this hasn't had a single use-case reported since Fedora 8.

What exactly, if any, is the solution rsyslog/syslog-ng have implemented?

Comment 2 Douglas E. Warner 2009-05-04 01:59:31 UTC
Okay, I didn't realize sysklogd was dropped/readded.

rsyslog and syslog-ng ship the same logrotate script in order to not conflict on the file level.  There's a bug open to split off a logrotate-syslog package that would be much easier to track, but no progress has been made on it.

In syslog-ng I keep my own syslog-ng.pid file and then symlink the "proper" pid file if it's the only syslogger running (like, syslog.pid on RHEL).

The use-case I could see with having multiple sysloggers would be if you wanted the stock syslogger for local logging and then run one of the other ones for remote logging/processing.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:48:48 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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