[classic-discuss] Syslog/logrotate

[Jaakko Heinonen]

Hi,

On 2006-01-06, Mikkel Nielsen wrote:
> or syslog deamon restart should include a chown syslog.syslog in a 
> start/restart

I patched syslogd to chown log files that it creates. (to the user
specified with the -u switch) This makes it to work as expected in most
cases. However there are still possible scenarios where it doesn't
behave nicely. (eg. with pipes) "Fixing" those would require rewriting
the syslogd initialization routine. I think that it works now well
enough for most of the users and the behaviour is documented on the
manual page.

I have compiled new packages for testing:

http://jh.dy.fi/~jaakko/sysklogd/sysklogd-1.4.1-41jh.i586.rpm
http://jh.dy.fi/~jaakko/sysklogd/sysklogd-1.4.1-41jh.src.rpm

Testing is appreciated.

-- 
Jaakko