I want to run third-party syslog daemon on my machine. Therefore I want standard Fedora syslog daemon, rsyslogd, to not run. I went to System->Administration-Services and stopped and disabled rsyslog service. Then I set up third-party syslog daemon. It works ok. After reboot, rsyslog service is mightly confused by /var/run/syslogd.pid created by _other_ syslog daemon: # cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 1375 # pidof rsyslogd # service rsyslog status rsyslogd (pid 1375) is running... So it thinks that rsyslogd is running, while in reality it does not. Thus, system falsely thinks that rsyslog service is running. This causes System->Administration-Services GUI to also show it as running, which is confusing. Attempts to stop or (re)start it will not work and generally will look broken: # service rsyslog stop Shutting down system logger: [FAILED] # service rsyslog start Starting system logger: Seeing this, user is confused. Did "start" work or did it fail? # service rsyslog restart Shutting down system logger: [FAILED] Starting system logger: # I propose to stop relying on /var/run/syslogd.pid and use `pidof rsyslogd` instead to find rsyslogd pid. This would be my first choice: pidof works, why bother messing with pid files which are not reliable anyway? For example, stale ones will remain on unclean shutdown... Alternatively, use rsyslogd-specific pid file, say, /var/run/rsyslogd.pid (note added letter 'r').
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