rsyslog is in F8

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Jul 18 14:01:53 UTC 2007



On 18.07.2007 15:37, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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, ...

But shouldn't it be safe to start if the daemon (or the predecessor in
this case) was running already? That's what other scripts do iirc.

CU
thl




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