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

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Aug 13 18:13:01 UTC 2008


Once upon a time, Douglas E. Warner <silfreed at silfreed.net> said:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 11:13:02 Chris Adams wrote:
> > I don't think it is valid to have more than one syslog type daemon
> > running at once, is it?
> 
> It's not valid, but I don't think the service scripts should break if someone 
> accidentally does it.

I guess what I mean is will a second daemon even start?  I know if you
set them for remote reception, only one will start; the second will fail
trying to bind the network socket.  What happens if you try to start two
listening locally?

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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