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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:56:56 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
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Subject: Re: Regarding the (apparent) removal of syslogd_program
 functionality in recent versions
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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

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.