rsyslog is in F8

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 13:37:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:27 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Peter Vrabec wrote:
> >> I'd say that since sysklogd is erased, rsylogd should be automatically
> >> enabled and started. Yes, I know the packaging recommendations, but I
> >> think that in this case an exception should be accepted.
> >
> > I agree, but I don't know any nice and secure way we can do it. 
> shipping an /etc/init.d/rsyslog with default options set to enabled + 
> service rsyslog start in %post is not OK ?

Starting a service in %post is not in at all okay.  It can cause all
sorts of havoc when installing systems, creating live images, init'ing
chroots for building in, ...

Jeremy




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