2013/11/28 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:36:38PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: >>> Paul B. Henson wrote: >>> > In openntpd ebuilds starting with version 20080406-r3, logging was >>> > changed >>> > from using the default standard syslog to running the daemon in debug >>> > mode, >>> > logging to stderr, and having start_stop_daemon background the process >>> > itself and redirect the output to a log file. >>> > >>> > I think this is broken. >>> >>> Yes, I think it is really f-ing broken too. >> >> Well, looks like it's just you and me in that camp :(, quite >> disappointing no other devs stepped up with an opinion on this. Guess >> I'll just fix this in my local overlay and the rest of the users can >> fend for themselves. > > Did anybody actually talk to the maintainer about this and ask why > this was done? That would probably be a good first step if you want > it to change. Having 47 devs agree with you doesn't really accomplish > much if none of them care to maintain the package in question. Paul talked to me via the bug tracker, bug 491134, and due to discussion we had there openntpd-20080406-r5 features a use flag to bring back syslog support (for details see the bug). This allows to run openntpd with two different ways of logging, via syslog (like Paul wants) and with a separate log file to avoid boot delays (like djc wants). We could easily make syslog logging the default, like polynomial-c suggested in another thread, but syslog is enabled in most profiles by default anyway.
> > Also, you can always publish your overlay. :) > > Rich > -- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
