[oe] [PATCH] busybox: move syslog config to /etc/default

Chris Larson kergoth at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 14:22:15 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch.de> wrote:
> Am 12.01.2011 02:43, schrieb Chris Larson:
>> From: Chris Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
>>
>> The busybox syslog syslog.conf is parsed by the /etc/init.d script, not by the
>> syslog process itself, so it belongs in /etc/default.  In addition, the file
>> format is *completely* different from the standard sysklogd configuration, so
>> while we should resolve the file conflict between busybox-syslog and sysklogd,
>> we should not use update-alternatives for it, so this is a cleaner solution.
>
> Moving the file into /etc/default seems to be OK for me.
>
> But i would suggest to rename the config file itself to busybox-syslog, because it does not contain (default) configuration for any syslog incarnation but only for busybox-syslog.

Good point, will do.  Thanks.
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Christopher Larson
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Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics




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