Syslogd is not the only "problem-patient" for people, that prepare themselves for exams. Because of this I recommend older distributions to my pupils. I also think, syslogd should be taken out from 108.2 and LILO should be removed from 213.1.
Best regards Harald Am 10.07.2012 21:53, schrieb Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Éric Deschamps<erd...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> It becomes hard to teach syslog as standard distributions RedHat/CentOS >> and Debian use now rsyslog. >> > I second that. rsyslog is the default syslog daemon for a long time in > various distros. > > 2007, Fedora 8 > 2008, Ubuntu > 2009, Debian Lenny, OpenSUSE 11.2 > 2010, RHEL 6 > > RHEL 5 has rsyslog packaged and supported too (not sure if it is the default). > > For at least three years major distros use rsyslog by default. > > >> rsyslog uses a configuration file syntax very close to syslog's one, but >> it is very different for network logging. >> > And much better. > >> So could it be possible to upgrade 108.2 with rsyslog and only basic >> knowledge of syslog ? >> > I vote for the complete removal of the traditional syslog in favor of > rsyslog. The the lastest release of sysklogd was near 5 years ago. [1] > > [1] http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/news.php > _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
