[classic-discuss] Syslog/logrotate

[Mikkel Nielsen]

Hi,


I will start testing right away.

Thanks for now!

--
Mikkel

Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> 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.
>