Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 19 16:36, Julio Emanuel wrote:
> Hi Corinna (I think this is with you),

Nevertheless, this is the wrong mailing list.  Next time, please report
problems always to the cygwin AT cygwin dot com ML, except you're a
package maintainer or you're providing code to setup.exe.  Thanks.

> --- /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config   2009-03-19 16:21:32.555352800 +0000
> +++ /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config.old       2009-03-19 16:20:51.052696800 +0000
> @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
>  then
>    echo "Creating default ${SYSCONFDIR}/syslog-ng.conf file"
>    cat > ${SYSCONFDIR}/syslog-ng.conf << EOF
> -@version: 3.0
> +@version 3.0
>  options {
>    keep_hostname(yes);
>    owner("system");
> 
> ...to put the 'lost colon' back in place in the first line written to
> the syslog-ng.conf :)

The patch seems to be reverted, but I see.  I'll update that and send
the patch upstream.  Thanks.

> Now, for the part I didn't manage to solve yet: the syslog-ng service
> also spits this warning (error?) when starting: "Error resolving user;
> user='system'", but I have the 'vanilla' system entry in /etc/passwd:
> ~ $ grep system /etc/passwd
> system:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> and indeed all does seem well:
> ~ $ id system
> uid=18(system) gid=544(Administrators) groups=544(Administrators)
> 
> Is it any misleading message, maybe?

Is the /etc/syslog-ng.conf file owned by the system user?

> And finally, the most wanted (at the moment): The man page refers
> 'NOTE: This file is not up to date. Please refer to the html
> documentation'. Looking at
> ~ $ cygcheck -l syslog-ng
> /usr/sbin/syslog-ng.exe
> /usr/bin/loggen.exe
> /usr/bin/syslog-ng-config
> /usr/share/man/man5/syslog-ng.conf.5
> /usr/share/man/man8/syslog-ng.8
> /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.sample
> /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.solaris
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/syslog-ng.README
> 
> Hrmmm... where is it?

Not available, sorry.  The HTML documentation was not part of the
upstream package, so I couldn't provide it.  I'm not even sure the
documentation for the 3.0 series is finshed yet.


Corinna

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