[gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-07 Thread David Corbin
When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd -> start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbi

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd -> start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sb

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-08 Thread David Corbin
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 a

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out what tool provides logger? AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. Try: grep -E "provide.*logger" /etc/init.d/* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out > > what tool provides logger? > > AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. I understand t

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 09 December 2006 06:57, David Corbin wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find > > > out what tool provides logger? > > > > AFAIK, the

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:57:14 -0500, David Corbin wrote: > > AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. > > I understand that's where it's defined, but what I meant was how does > it find it. Surely it's not running every script each time somebody > depends on something. The