Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-12 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:08:47AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: For one it allows to drop configuration data in /etc/rsyslogd.d/ (so you could automatically setup rsyslog without having to munge with I always love the .d directories, for this reason. Only source s_jffnms {

Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Craig Small wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:21:16PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Could you explain a little, how jffnms uses syslog-ng (from your description it sounds the other way around: syslog-ng using jffnms as storage backend) It's basically using syslog-ng as a converter from UDP

Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: jffnms Version: 0.8.3dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal Hi, jffnms currently has a Suggests: syslog-ng There seems nothing syslog-ng specific in this package. In addition there are plans to change the default syslog daemon for lenny to rsyslog [1]. I thus recommend to change this to Suggests:

Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:39:01PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: jffnms currently has a Suggests: syslog-ng There seems nothing syslog-ng specific in this package. There is documentation in JFFNMS on how to use syslog-ng to export log file messages into the JFFNMS database. Suggests: rsyslog

Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Craig! Craig Small wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:39:01PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: jffnms currently has a Suggests: syslog-ng There seems nothing syslog-ng specific in this package. There is documentation in JFFNMS on how to use syslog-ng to export log file messages into the

Bug#464010: jffnms: Missing alternative dependency on system-log-daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:21:16PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Could you explain a little, how jffnms uses syslog-ng (from your description it sounds the other way around: syslog-ng using jffnms as storage backend) It's basically using syslog-ng as a converter from UDP syslog packets from