System log program in FC4?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:13:34PM -0700, Richard E Miles wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:49:16 -0500
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:14:23PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > On 8/13/05, Anthony Dean <adean75 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > > > Although I found it on a machine that was updated from FC3. I think I
> > > > > > once noticed that it was missing in machines where FC4 was just
> > > > > > installed. It is a python program I thing called system-logviewer.py
> > > > > > I just checked it does not seem to be on a system where FC4 is just
> > > > > > installed. I would install the one from FC3.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Looked under FC3 repository for it, but didn't see one named
> > > > > "System-logviewer"; any idea what the FC3 GUI logviewer program is
> > > > > called, anyone?
> > > > 
> > > > Never mind.... I've found it. But thanks anyway...
> > > > 
> > > > Anthony
> > > 
> > > Where did you find it? I am also on FC4, and I cannot find it.
> > > 
> > In the FC3 distribution the rpm is called:
> > system-logviewer-0.9.11-1.noarch.rpm
> > 
> > The fact that this was not installed in FC4 even though it was being
> > upgraded is a real mystery to me.
> > -- 
> 
> system-logviewer was dropped from FC4. You can google for it. I found a src rpm
> for it and installed that.
> 
> system-logviewer-0.9.7-1.src.rpm
> 
> -- 
But why it was dropped has not been fully explained. Also notice that
the one in FC3 is a later version than the one you got by googling.
It is a  mystery which really should be explained to us grunts in
the field by the decision makers out in Fedora-land.
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