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From: nieusma@eclipse.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Nieusma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: ultrix syslog 4.2 vs. 4.3
Keywords: syslog
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Date: 15 Nov 90 22:40:48 GMT
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Well, a while ago I sent out a message bitching about DEC's brain
damages syslog.  I asked if anyone had come up with a way to use the
BSD 4.3 syslogger.  Since I got almost no replies, I took matters into
my own hands and came up with a plan.  Since all the important ultrix
stuff gets logged with elcd (which is another story altogether), I
fugured the syslog facility wasn't being used anyway.  So I just ripped
it out and put in the 4.3 syslog stuff.  I feel so much better now.
Here is most of the message I sent to our sys admin folks here:

----------- Forwarded Message ---------------

while setting up ultrix 4.0, I made some pretty significant changes:

1.  I replaced syslog.o in libc.a so it is now the BSD 4.3 version
    the man pages for syslog(3) and syslogd(8) reflect this.
2.  the old stuff is in /usr/lib/libold_syslog.a and old_syslog(3)
    and old_syslog(8)
3.  replaced the /etc/syslog.conf file with our 4.3 version
4.  installed /usr/ucb/logger and man page
5.  recompiled /bin/su so it will use the 4.3 syslogger
6.  installed sendmail 5.64+IDA and it uses the 4.3 syslogger

-------------------- EOM ----------------------

Does anyone know of anything that's gonna break or anything that I
missed?  Please let me know...

Many thanks to the few people who did respond to my plea:

Steven M. Schultz <sms@LONEX.RADC.AF.MIL> said:
	yeah, it does seem that each release tends to break more than
	it fixes, eh ;-)

anders@ifi.uio.no said:
	Please do talk to your dec person. File a SWR. Maybe if enough
	of us does this...
	Btw: We have filed a SWR stating that we want 4.3 syslog
	instead of this elcsd/uerf thing. Not that I think this will
	help, but at least we tried.

Paul Killey <paul@caen.engin.umich.edu> said [paraphrazed]:
        We run the 4.3 syslogd and don't bother running the 4.2 syslog.


thanks for letting me waste your bandwidth...
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