On Friday 08 December 2006 00:43, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 12/7/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't have exim installed, but I'm guessing it depends on "logger",

It does.

> which can be provided by either sysklogd or syslog-ng.
>
> Probably:
>
> 1. You had sysklogd installed at one point (thus got an init file for it)

I don't think I did. It's a pretty new install.  And there is not init file fo 
rit.

> 2. You emerge -C'd it (thus why /usr/sbin/syslogd doesn't exist)
> 3. You have /etc in CONFIG_PROTECT but don't have /etc/init.d in
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, so portage left the sysklogd init file on your
> system.
>
> I'm guessing you should be able to resolve this with:
>
> 1. rc-update -d sysklogd

 * 'sysklogd' not found in any of the specified runlevels

> 2. rm /etc/init.d/sysklogd
>


When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out what 
tool provides logger?

David
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