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diff --git a/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE b/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6095c53128 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/rsyslog/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +README.SLACKWARE for rsyslog + +The package contains the /etc/rc.d/rc.rsyslogd init script which will +start rsyslogd. + +Since rsyslog basically supersedes the klogd/syslogd daemons, the stock +Slackware sysklogd package should be removed and its leftovers cleaned up: + + 1. Remove useless logrotate configuration: + + rm /etc/logrotate.d/syslog + + 2. Make rsyslog start automatically on boot, without modifications to rc.M: + + cd /etc/rc.d && ln -sf rc.rsyslogd rc.syslog + cd /usr/sbin && ln -sf rsyslogd syslogd + +To make the transition even easier, you will find /etc/rsyslog.conf in the +proper format, which was converted from sysklogd's syslog.conf. + +/etc/rc.d/rc.rsyslogd is written to emulate syslogd. To prevent rc.inet1 +from attempting to run rc.syslog again, rc.syslogd will copy/remove the +/var/run/syslogd.pid file on successful start/stop invocations. + |