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[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:02:41PM -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
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> When I look at the postinstall part of the syslog-ng installation I see
> this:
>
> # check if daemon configured in SYSLOG_DAEMON is installed
> # and switch to ourself if it's missed
> #
> source etc/sysconfig/syslog
> replace_syslog=no
> if test "$SYSLOG_DAEMON" != "syslog-ng" ; then
>     if test -z "$SYSLOG_DAEMON" || \
>        test ! -x sbin/${SYSLOG_DAEMON} ; then
>         replace_syslog=yes
>     fi
> fi
> if test "$replace_syslog" = "yes" ; then
>     sed -i -e 's/^SYSLOG_DAEMON=.*/SYSLOG_DAEMON="syslog-ng"/g' \
>               etc/sysconfig/syslog
> fi
>
> There we are.  Its editing the etc/sysconfig/syslog file.
> This would happen if, for example, there was a
>
>    SYSLOG_DAEMON="rsyslog"
>
> in there.

Very, very likely a bug and not a feature. :/

See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592192

Please add further comments there.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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