syslog disabling question

2007-06-13 Thread Kian Mohageri
Hello, I was setting up a central logserver this afternoon and some of the functionality I need wasn't in the stock syslogd(8), so I chose to use syslog-ng. I noticed that you cannot specify syslogd=NO or syslogd_flags=NO to disable it (in rc.conf.local), and I was mostly curious why. I'm sure

Re: syslog disabling question

2007-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/06/13 02:00, Kian Mohageri wrote: Is my best option to kill syslogd from rc.local or manually edit /etc/rc? How about leaving them both running, and binding syslog-ng to just the relevant IP address?

Re: syslog disabling question

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
modify /etc/rc (this looks questionable anyway -- looks like someone snook the named stuff in there because it needs aprivate log device in the chroot): echo 'starting system logger' rm -f /dev/log if [ X${named_flags} != XNO ]; then rm -f /var/named/dev/log

Re: syslog disabling question

2007-06-13 Thread Kian Mohageri
On 6/13/07, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007/06/13 02:00, Kian Mohageri wrote: Is my best option to kill syslogd from rc.local or manually edit /etc/rc? How about leaving them both running, and binding syslog-ng to just the relevant IP address? Thank you all for the