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Re: /etc/rc syslogd patch for your consideration

From: Jean-Gérard Pailloncy (jgrilk.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 11:46:22 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.

I use sysjail.
I would really appreciate to configure the sysjail systems without
pathcing rc. One of the thing is to be able to disable syslog.

Cordialement,
Jean-Girard Pailloncy