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diff --git a/system/syslog-ng/README.SLACKWARE b/system/syslog-ng/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2373bbae2c --- /dev/null +++ b/system/syslog-ng/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Since syslog-ng basically supersedes klogd/syslogd daemons, stock Slackware +sysklogd package should be removed, and leftovers cleaned up, so here are +some things you need to do: + +Remove useless logrotate configuration: + + rm /etc/logrotate.d/syslog + +Make syslog-ng start automatically on boot, without modifications to rc.M: + + cd /etc/rc.d && ln -sf rc.syslog-ng rc.syslog + cd /usr/sbin && ln -sf syslog-ng syslogd + +To make transition even easier, i converted syslog.conf from sysklogd +package to syslog-ng.conf format. You can find it in /etc/syslog-ng. + +Another thing worth mentioning here is rc.syslog-ng, wich is written to +also emulate syslogd. On a successful start/stop it will copy/remove +syslog-ng.pid to /var/run/syslogd.pid so that rc.inet1 doesn't atempt +running rc.syslog for a second time. |