On 17/11/2011, at 7:04 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > A similar case with a large userbase is the syslog daemon. Debian used > to ship standard with a /usr/sbin/syslogd. Then it was replaced with a > /usr/sbin/rsyslog, from a different package. Since rsyslog is Priority > important, it gets installed automatically, and this removes sysklogd; > you can verify this happened to most users on [1]. However, we have > not lost any sleep over users who might have something that ran > /usr/sbin/syslogd directly, and I've never seen this inconvenience a > single user.
Yep, and what an epic clusterf*** that is :( I have a number of clients who have a mix of debian lenny and squeeze, and ubuntu 8 and 10 LTS boxes - some newly installed, some upgraded, etc etc, and maintaining scripts to check whether a server is running sysklogd or rsyslog, while doing automated config pushes and syslog restarts for logfile archival, etc has been a fairly serious headache. --DG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19aa06ca-6b10-4538-bf61-6bf105677...@rendrag.net
