Bug 715648

Summary:	syslog not starting
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	fcrozat, mt, werner
Version:	Milestone 5
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Hardware:	All
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-09-02 08:06:26 UTC

I found that on default KDE installs and KDE-LiveCD, the syslog service could not be started, because /etc/init.d/syslog contains a fatal check for /sbin/klogd
but nothing requires klogd to be installed.
On 11.4, rsyslog required /sbin/klogd
non-KDE systems are only working, because gdm requires klogd.
systemd systems are probably working, because a .service file is used instead of the init script.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2011-09-02 08:18:42 UTC

rsyslogd does *not* require klogd as it has its own module
for fetching the kernel messages.  I'll remove the fatal
check for rsyslogd and syslog-ng

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2011-09-02 08:19:58 UTC

btw: you may test out systemd insterad sysvinit  with /etc/init.d/syslog and
/etc/init.d/earlysyslog disabled by insserv ;)

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2011-09-02 08:25:46 UTC

OK now its fatal only for syslogd or if rsyslog/syslg-ng do not use their
own kernel logging facility

Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-09-02 09:00:19 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (715648) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/80612 Factory / syslogd

Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-09-02 11:00:13 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (715648) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/80638 Factory / syslogd