Re: syslogd installation problem

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim 'Death before Decaf' Sailer)]

In your email to me, Gerry Jensen, you wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my system to 1.1.  When trying to install the new 
> syslogd package, it dies saying:
> 
> Setting up syslogd ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslogd.postinst: /etc/init.d/syslogd: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> And, indeed there is not /etc/init.d/syslogd on my system.  There is 
> however a sysklogd (note the 'k') file in /etc/init.d.  The start of this 
> file reads:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> # /etc/init.d/syslogd: start syslog daemons.
> 
> (Note the lack of 'k' in the second line).  So, I'm wondering if this 
> file is just named incorrectly, or perhaps the syslogd.postinst file is 
> trying to access this file by the wrong name.  Or, perhaps it's something 
> silly I've done elsewhere.  Any suggestions are appreciated.

As I just found out early this morning, doing an virgin install on
one machine, and an upgrade on another, 'syslogd' is *very* broken,
but *sysklogd* works... they both seem to be the same.
Also, 'mesg' is no longer on the system..

Tim

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