Need help making syslog-ng, rsyslog, and sysklogd not conflict
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Tue Aug 12 22:59:58 UTC 2008
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
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