Re: [opensuse] Why has syslog-ng changed to rsyslog?

Am Dienstag, 30. März 2010 12:06:14 schrieb Togan Muftuoglu:
Marius Tomaschewski wrote:
On upgrade/ update, no "rpm -e $package" should be done, but always
a "rpm -U $package.rpm".

So which one is zypper up doing ? as the system was updated via
opensuse.org-online_update cron job.

It should do rpm -Uvh only.

But even it makes rpm -e ; rpm -U, it will work.

See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592192#c8:

When you have an active syslog-ng and just update it, syslog-ng
remains active:

+ source etc/sysconfig/syslog
++ KERNEL_LOGLEVEL=1
++ SYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ KLOGD_PARAMS=-x
++ SYSLOG_DAEMON=syslog-ng
++ RSYSLOGD_COMPAT_VERSION=
++ RSYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ SYSLOG_NG_PARAMS=
++ RSYSLOGD_NATIVE_VERSION=4
+ replace_syslog=no
+ test syslog-ng '!=' syslog-ng
+ test no = yes

Also when the update is broken and removes first, it works:

*** while remove, it resets itself:

+ source etc/sysconfig/syslog
++ KERNEL_LOGLEVEL=1
++ SYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ KLOGD_PARAMS=-x
++ SYSLOG_DAEMON=syslog-ng
++ RSYSLOGD_COMPAT_VERSION=
++ RSYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ SYSLOG_NG_PARAMS=
++ RSYSLOGD_NATIVE_VERSION=4
+ test syslog-ng == syslog-ng
+ sed -i -e 's/^SYSLOG_DAEMON=.*/SYSLOG_DAEMON=""/g' etc/sysconfig/syslog


*** while reinstall, it sets to itself again:

+ source etc/sysconfig/syslog
++ KERNEL_LOGLEVEL=1
++ SYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ KLOGD_PARAMS=-x
++ SYSLOG_DAEMON=
++ RSYSLOGD_COMPAT_VERSION=
++ RSYSLOGD_PARAMS=
++ SYSLOG_NG_PARAMS=
++ RSYSLOGD_NATIVE_VERSION=4
+ replace_syslog=no
+ test '' '!=' syslog-ng
+ test -z ''
+ replace_syslog=yes
+ test yes = yes
+ sed -i -e 's/^SYSLOG_DAEMON=.*/SYSLOG_DAEMON="syslog-ng"/g'
etc/sysconfig/syslog


Only when you install another daemon in the time between, it changes:

SYSLOG_DAEMON=syslog-ng

- remove syslog-ng
SYSLOG_DAEMON=""

- install rsyslog
SYSLOG_DAEMON="rsyslogd"

- install syslog-ng
SYSLOG_DAEMON="rsyslogd"

But in this case,
this was a request to switch to rsyslog + install additional one.

Gruesse / Regards,
Marius Tomaschewski <mt@xxxxxxx> <mt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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