Bug#1014243: busybox-syslogd: The 'syslog' daemon is running, but no configuration file can be found.
Package: busybox-syslogd
Followup-For: Bug #1014243
Hi,
> What led up to the situation? No idea, I've never touched the configuration
> (that I know of)
>
> What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? not
> sure, it was in a cron daily report.And wasn't in the previous one.
>
> What was the outcome of this action? received email from Cron Daily with
> subject line :"[rkhunter] DebianTim - Daily report" and in the body of the
> email it states: "Warning: The 'syslog' daemon is running, but no configuration
> file can be found."
> I have no idea where that might be to check it, the man pages point to this
> program for syslog.
>
> What outcome did you expect instead? Not to get this type of email
>
The busybox's syslogd provided by Debian does not require a configuration file.
The settings will need to be set with the syslogd command line option.
This warning is output by rkhunter. If you want to control this warning output,
I think you need to control it with rkhunter.
Best regards,
Nobuhiro
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