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Re: /etc/rc syslogd patch for your consideration

From: Lars Hansson (larsunet.net.ph)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 22:34:59 CDT


Theo de Raadt wrote:
> I strongly believe that syslogd should always run. The consequences
> of not running it are bizzare.
>
> I think not running it is heading too strongly in the direction of
> "embedded device", and that people going that far should make their
> own larger changes to the rc scripts, outside the rc.conf framework.
>

This patch does make it a lot easier to run syslog replacements that are
in ports (syslog-ng, socklog) though since you no longer need to edit
/etc/rc.

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Lars Hansson