Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:56:56 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding the (apparent) removal of syslogd_program functionality in recent versions Message-ID: <20060314125656.9781537b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4416F894.2050600@locolomo.org> References: <20060314105120.67ef5432.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4416F894.2050600@locolomo.org>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:08:36 +0100
Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > The rc.conf manpage states that syslogd_program= can be used to change
> > the program run for system logging. This is also mentioned in
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and in the pkg-message for the syslog-ng port.
>
> it seems there is some inconsistencies regarding what should be the
> recommended approach. I see in default/rc.conf that some have the
> executable specified as the value of ${name} that is maybe try to set
>
> syslogd=<path to syslogd-ng>
/etc/rc.d/syslogd does not support this at all. It explicitly sets
the program to start to /usr/sbin/syslogd, and I can not see any way
to override this without editing /etc/rc.d/syslogd
--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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