Andrew J Caines wrote: > With the latest postfix update (postfix-1.1.11-20020911) I was first > confused that the spec file changes and I couldn't do my nornal job of > removing the "fake syslog" references, but then delighted to see that > these options were paramatised. > Andrew, you accidentally became our guniea pig (*) for the new OSSP fsl (fake syslog library, see http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/fsl/) now used in OpenPKG.
When we introduced the new fsl in OpenPKG as a replacment to the previous fakesyslog we made it a separate package. Initially the use of this package was optional. However, this changed with the version you're talking about The use of fsl is no longer conditional, see http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=4714. However, we forgot to remove the obsolete option from the description. Gotcha#1 - fixed and thanks, see http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=4893 The good news for you is that fsl has an output channel which can write to a remote syslog. The underlying OSSP l2 can write to local syslog as well but because fsl is a syslog(3) redirector this would cause a infinite loop. Gotcha#2 - needs to be documented and has made it to my push down list. So you have three options now: First, continue using fsl and create a l2spec to forward to a remote syslog (remote means by UDP, destination can be localhost). Second, remove fsl from each distribution as you did with fakesyslog in the past. Third, use the powerful functions of l2 and get rid of your "real syslog" requirement. Choose your weapon - we'll help you anyway. (*) according to my online dictionary. Hopefully this is not a cuss :-) ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
