Sorry, I found the answer after sending my earlier message. While I had
restarted syslogd after installing the new package, I had not restarted
sendmail and mgetty. After doing that, logging seems to be working as
expected.
Owen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen V. Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: November 26, 1999 10:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: sysklogd update for RH5.2 changes logging behavior
>
>
> I recently installed sysklogd-1.3.31-1.5.i386.rpm on my RH5.2 system.
> Now I'm getting logging behavior different from what I had with the
> prior version (which was a security update from the original that
> accompanied RH5.2).
>
> What I have noticed so far is that mgetty events that used to
> show up in
> /var/log/messages are no longer being logged. Outgoing sendmail events
> are being logged to /var/log/maillog, but incoming events (like relay
> attempts) are no longer being logged. I have not made any
> changes to my
> mgetty and sendmail configurations.
>
> I can see that the package installed a new /etc/syslog.conf
> over my old
> one. Unfortunately, I don't have a backup of the old one. I
> do not think
> I made any changes to the stock file that came with the
> earlier sysklogd
> packages, though.
>
> What should I do to allow mgetty and sendmail (and perhaps others I
> haven't noticed) to log the way they used to with previous sysklogd
> packages?
>
> Owen
>
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