Need help making syslog-ng, rsyslog, and sysklogd not conflict

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> I've been sitting on an update to syslog-ng for quite awhile now because I 
> haven't been able to make syslog-ng compatible with simultaneous installations 
> of rsyslog or sysklogd (RHEL).
> 
> The root of the problem is that currently you can't install syslog-ng along 
> side of either of the other two syslog providers since both packages installs 
> their own logrotate files that rotate the same log files resulting in double 
> log rotation.
> 
> I've tried updating my syslog-ng package to include the logrotate file of each 
> of the other packages, but this still conflicts on RHEL-based boxes and when 
> sysklogd gets an update, syslog-ng gets silently removed (RPM does it without 
> reporting that it happened or yum saying it will happen).
> 
> Any ideas how I can make these packages installable at the same time?
> 

Should these packages even be installable at the same time?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip