nieusma@eclipse.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Nieusma) (11/16/90)
Well, a while ago I sent out a message bitching about DEC's brain
damages syslog. I asked if anyone had come up with a way to use the
BSD 4.3 syslogger. Since I got almost no replies, I took matters into
my own hands and came up with a plan. Since all the important ultrix
stuff gets logged with elcd (which is another story altogether), I
fugured the syslog facility wasn't being used anyway. So I just ripped
it out and put in the 4.3 syslog stuff. I feel so much better now.
Here is most of the message I sent to our sys admin folks here:
----------- Forwarded Message ---------------
while setting up ultrix 4.0, I made some pretty significant changes:
1. I replaced syslog.o in libc.a so it is now the BSD 4.3 version
the man pages for syslog(3) and syslogd(8) reflect this.
2. the old stuff is in /usr/lib/libold_syslog.a and old_syslog(3)
and old_syslog(8)
3. replaced the /etc/syslog.conf file with our 4.3 version
4. installed /usr/ucb/logger and man page
5. recompiled /bin/su so it will use the 4.3 syslogger
6. installed sendmail 5.64+IDA and it uses the 4.3 syslogger
-------------------- EOM ----------------------
Does anyone know of anything that's gonna break or anything that I
missed? Please let me know...
Many thanks to the few people who did respond to my plea:
Steven M. Schultz <sms@LONEX.RADC.AF.MIL> said:
yeah, it does seem that each release tends to break more than
it fixes, eh ;-)
anders@ifi.uio.no said:
Please do talk to your dec person. File a SWR. Maybe if enough
of us does this...
Btw: We have filed a SWR stating that we want 4.3 syslog
instead of this elcsd/uerf thing. Not that I think this will
help, but at least we tried.
Paul Killey <paul@caen.engin.umich.edu> said [paraphrazed]:
We run the 4.3 syslogd and don't bother running the 4.2 syslog.
thanks for letting me waste your bandwidth...
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