Re: new syslogd broke Sys::Syslog?

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Brian Almeida wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 02:11:14PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > I'm using perl 5.004.04-6 and sysklogd 1.3-28. The perl Sys::Syslog module
> > > used to work, and no longer does - I think it may have been the sysklogd
> > > upgrade that broke it. This command should generate a message in the logs
> > > and doesn't:
> > sysklogd 1.3-28 is severely broken, IIRC.  Upgrade to -30.  -28 wasn't logging
> > ANYTHING and was denying root logins and such.
> 
> I thought that was .29 - I've had no other trobles with .28. 

Oh well, it was -27, -28 and -29.  *sigh*.  I was very successful in breaking
other peoples systems.

> I just upgraded to .30 and the command still doesn't work.

Do you have remote logging enabled?

I guess not:

Oct 27 00:12:11 finlandia test[4177]: testing

So it works for me.

ii  sysklogd        1.3-29.2       Kernel and system logging daemons

Hmm, this is a prerelease of -30.

Regards,

	Joey

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