Bug#2960: etc/cron.weekly/syslogd is not a conffile as it ought to be

[Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>]

Dominik Kubla wrote:
>
> >>>>> Herbert Xu writes:
>
> > The file /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd is not installed as a conffile as
> > it should be.  As a lot of people do have log files with different
> > names than the default ones the vanilla cron file is of little use
> > and may even cause havoc.  As I recall it used to be a conffile but
> > it seems to have been changed in recent releases.  Thus I urge the
> > maintainer to again set it as a conffile unless there is a good
> > reason to do otherwise.
>
> No, i would recommend the maintainer to have the cron script parse
> /etc/syslog.conf and do the logfile rotation based upon its contents.
> People shouldn't need to change two configfiles when one already holds
> all the information.

Well what ever is to be done, it should be done before the main release.

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