Re: Bug#689578: sysklogd modifies /etc/syslog.conf with helper script
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 00:41:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> > A better approach imho would be to simply remove sysklogd from the
> > archive. It's dead upstream, apparently no longer properly
> > maintained in Debian, and there are enough more then suitable
> > alternatives. With rsyslog we even have a drop-in replacement.
> >
> I've added a hint to remove it from wheezy.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
Hm. Rather than simply remove it, can we actually provide an upgrade
path to rsyslog? I'd be happy to NMU a version of ksyslogd that
does this in unstable (for consideration in wheezy), as long as rsyslog
is truly a drop-in replacement.
It seems that new squeeze installs default to using rsyslog. However,
I still have several older systems that've been upgraded from earlier
Debian releases that are still using ksyslogd/klogd. There's been no
indication that ksyslogd had been deprecated in favor of something
else. If not for the 100% klogd cpu bug (#680099), I'd probably have
continued running it forever without realizing we've switched to
rsyslog.
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