rsyslog is in F8

[Wart]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Daemons do a condrestart in their %post, not a start.

I suppose this should now be 'try-restart' to conform with the LSB 
specification?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts

--Wart