On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > sysklogd is dead, and has been removed from the archive. You shouldn't > use it anymore.
I think the problem here is that I installed Wheezy on this machine with a dist-install. I'd never done that before, and it's near the top of my list to reinstall from a netinstall CD. I don't know if dist-install just doesn't work, or if it just doesn't work going from Lenny to Wheezy. I do know that netinstall works. > rsyslog and syslog-ng are both featureful syslog implementations. > rsyslog is the default in Debian since 3 releases now. It understands > the syntax of the old sysklogd, so if you familiar with that, this is > probably your best bet. I hear that rsyslog is a good piece of software; I'll give it a try. > As for all three enabled: That should not be possible: Those package > conflict with each other. If you really managed to install all three of > them, then you must have forced apt/dpkg to do so. No, I had a bent mess. And, I'm ashamed to say, I believed Webmin. There were startup scripts for the three of them in /etc/init.d, but there was no rsyslog binary (there is now). And is was syslog-ng that was running. If rsyslog is the standard Debian logging daemon, I have no idea how syslog-ng was even on the disk, to say nothing of why it was running. Thanks, Michael. I'd never paid a lot of attention to the log daemon before, and I couldn't understand what (I thought) was going on... -- Glenn English Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
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