Eugenio Diaz wrote:
>
> --- John Grange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > recently on my hybrid cooker/7.1 server i was going
> > through my logs and
> > descoverd /var/log/mail and /var/log/news with aprox
> > 50 megs of logs in
> > each and growing each day. is this fixed in more
> > recent packages( i have
> > not updated since right before 7.1 came out...)
>
> I have pointed this out like three time in the past
> few month, but nobody has fixed it yet. The offender
> is the syslog logrotate file which has two entries
> with a trailing '*'.
>
> So who is the maintainer of the syslogd package?
Apparently Frederic Crozat is.
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[root@gamut /root]# rpm -qf `which syslogd`
sysklogd-1.3.33-1mdk
[root@gamut /root]# rpm -qi sysklogd
Name : sysklogd Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.3.33 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release : 1mdk Build Date: Fri 25 Aug 2000
08:31:44 PM EST
Install date: Sat 26 Aug 2000 11:15:46 PM EST Build Host:
bi.mandrakesoft.com
Group : System/Kernel and hardware Source RPM:
sysklogd-1.3.33-1mdk.src.rpmSize : 99937
License: GPL
Packager : Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Summary : System logging and kernel message trapping daemons.
Description :
The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd)
which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as
daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different
places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc.
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