Bug#311812: postfix: syslog reconnection - solved?

2008-07-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi LaMont, You wrote: 3) change /etc/default/syslog to say SYSLOG=-a /var/spool/postfix/dev/log and then rsync -av /dev/log /var/spool/postfix/dev/log Note that any admin can do that, postfix may not edit the config file of another package. As it seems the bug you cloned this one as

Bug#311812: postfix: syslog reconnection - solved?

2008-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hi LaMont, You wrote: 3) change /etc/default/syslog to say SYSLOG=-a /var/spool/postfix/dev/log and then rsync -av /dev/log /var/spool/postfix/dev/log Note that any admin can do that, postfix may not edit the config file of another package. As it seems the bug

Bug#311812: postfix: syslog reconnection - solved?

2008-07-25 Thread LaMont Jones
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: * Add support for syslogd configuration files under /etc/syslog.d/. (Closes: #370349, #462739) Do you think this bug can now also be solved on the postfix side? From reading the bug report, it would appear that he added

Bug#311812: postfix: syslog reconnection - solved?

2008-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
In any case, I'm thinking I'll solve the issue by asking if the user wants to chroot postfix, and if so telling him that he needs to deal with making syslog happier, or (assuming it actually works) bind mounting /dev/log. If not chrooted, then the issue is non-existent. That's indeed