Arthur Dent wrote: > I have recently upgraded my Fedora box from FC6 to F8. I did not > simply copy > across my rkhunter.conf file, but gradually re-introduced the > configurations > step-by-step to see what would need to be changed. > > I have now eliminated all the errors and warnings except one: > > "Warning: The syslog daemon is running, but no configuration file > can be > found." > > On checking, I found that my FC6 install did indeed have a /etc/ > syslog.conf > file and the F8 install does not. It *does* however have a /etc/ > rsyslog.conf > file which is more or less identical. > > Changing the relevant section in rkhunter.conf from: > # > # This setting tells rkhunter the pathname to the syslog configuration > # file. This setting will be worked out by rkhunter, and so should not > # usually need to be set. > # > #SYSLOG_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/syslog.conf > > to: > > SYSLOG_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/rsyslog.conf > > of course fixes this. > > I thought I would let you know about this in case it would be > possible to deal > with it automatically in a future version of RKH. > > Any idea why Red Hat / Fedora have made this change?
Rsyslog is based on sysklogd and sysklogd is dead upstream. So they switched to rsyslog. http://lwn.net/Articles/242137/ Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
