Hello, I was setting up a central logserver this afternoon and some of the functionality I need wasn't in the stock syslogd(8), so I chose to use syslog-ng.
I noticed that you cannot specify syslogd=NO or syslogd_flags=NO to disable it (in rc.conf.local), and I was mostly curious why. I'm sure it has something to do with the gap between when things start up and may need to log vs. when the local startup happens -- if that's true, what is the suggested way around that? Originally I thought to simply keep syslogd enabled, but syslog-ng will not be able to start in that case. Is my best option to kill syslogd from rc.local or manually edit /etc/rc? Thanks for any suggestions. Kian
