Anton Aylward wrote:
I went through the logs in detail as the change to rsyslog occurred some months after the upgrade to 11.2. Everything was fine until this last week. The culprit machine is a laptop and it sees a laptop-related package had a dependency. Still tracing though the awful grammar of the zypper logs! Is there a tool to help with that?
Did you update the kernel during the last week and if so did the problem begin after the update. In my case after the update and reboot rsyslog appeared and my best friend syslog-ng disappeared. /etc/sysconfig/syslogd was in my case empty SYSLOG_DAEMON="" Apparently on March 24 there was an update to syslog-ng according to zypper logs 2010-03-24 01:03:39|install|syslog-ng|2.0.9-29.2.1|i586||openSUSE_11.2_Updates| But the switch to rsyslogd happened after the reboot
So are you sure that syslog-ng actually ever ran on those machines?
Oh yes! I have the log archives on the central logging host.
I would also second that syslog-ng was the syslog daemon
The change was to a laptop that got a number of things added last weekend that seemed to be related to laptop performance. Right now it seems that rsyslog was a dependency or one of them.
In my case it was the update of syslog-ng that cause the switch Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org