On 01/20/2015 01:36 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/01/20 13:25, IMAP List Administration wrote: >> >> > It's actually not at all difficult, and I have been doing it with >> > syslog-ng for >> > about 10 years with OpenBSD. >> > >> > Because the syslog-ng package puts libraries in /usr/local/bin, and >> > logging is >> > started before ldconfig has been called, it's necessary to do: >> > >> > daemon="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng" > This is *obviously* a dirty hack, you are modifying system-owned files which > are not intended to be modified and will be replaced at update time. > of course it's a dirty hack... *because* there is no generic mechanism for starting the logger of one's choice.
> Somenoe who uses it has to take ownership of the problem. I get the message. I will try to find the time to propose a diff to /etc/rc and a patch to syslog-ng to get it working. Rob Urban
