On 2018-05-23 03:55, L A Walsh wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-05-21 22:59, L A Walsh wrote:
Tried to see what package owned it -- as it was changed a few months back to use rsyslog instead of my configured ng-syslog, which I sorta thought was odd -- thought they usually put configfiles aside and labeled them with a special suffix, but didn't see any of those around.
Just a bit on the strange side...
What var are you looking at?
What var?
You mean in the file? one called 'SYSLOG_DAEMON' it had been switched from syslog-ng to rsyslog somewhere along the way.
Yes, that one. I simply do not have that var anymore. Telcontar:~ # grep SYSLOG_DAEMON /etc/sysconfig/syslog Telcontar:~ # Isengard:~ # grep SYSLOG_DAEMON /etc/sysconfig/syslog Isengard:~ # It was removed, not by me. Which means that it is probably ignored.
FWIW, I was wondering why it wasn't listed as being in some package -- like:
Because somescript does it. I think long ago there was a default directory somewhere with default files. [...] Ah, I see that Andrei has posted the name of that directory :-)
rpm -qf /etc/sysconfog/syslog xxyz-package...
thought that might give me a hint about what package overwrote it.
But also thought it strange that the new one wasn't named syslog.rpm-old or such if it was auto-switched out, or syslog.rpm-new if it wanted me to do the switch.
Because those files are never replaced. Vars are added or changed (not removed). Scripts do the changes calling 'sed' or something.
By the way, I don't recommend using syslog-ng on an openSUSE system that has systemd and journal.
Good to know, but so far, not a problem.
Read the rest of the thread and you'll see why I said that :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)