Re: Why change from syslog-ng to rsyslog?

Hi John

Am 14.05.2021 um 12:22 schrieb John Sager:
> So I've fixed up to use rsyslog - I have rules to log firewall-related 
> stuff (I'm not using shorewall) into a separate file and it turned out 
> to be just a 2-line addition to rsyslog.conf. However I also found a 
> couple of issues with logrotate:
> 
> 1) The script /usr/bin/logrotate is old and assumes the log file group 
> to be 'wheel' but rsyslog uses 'adm'. I fixed that with a 'GROUP' 
> variable in logrotate.d/syslog but perhaps the script ought to be updated.

Mhhhh... wheel used to be one of these noone knows why groups. The group 
used by rsyslog is about as configurable as the one used by logrotate. I 
don't know what is right or wrong.

> 
> 2) logrotate.d/syslog still assumes the log daemon to be syslog-ng.

OK.

cheers

ET

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