rsyslog is in F8

Peter Vrabec pvrabec at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 13:02:21 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:48 +0200, Peter Vrabec wrote:
>>> I was looking at the package of rsyslog: why do you apply a patch to
>>> rename the daemons from syslogd and klogd to 'rklogd' and 'rsyslogd'? If
>>> sysklogd is being replaced by the obsoletes in this package - why name
>>> this one differently?
>> because package name is rsyslog. The patch will be excluded in next
>> release, since it was accepted by upstream.
> 
> Yes, but the upstream makefile creates them as syslogd and klogd. 

http://rsyslog.cvs.sourceforge.net/rsyslog/rsyslog/Makefile.am?revision=1.10&view=markup

> Since
> we try to follow upstream as much as possible - what's the reason for
> the change in the binary name?
> 
> -sv
> 
> 




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