On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 07/02/11 20:14, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 07.02.2011 10:54, schrieb Eric Bélanger:
FS#22089 - [syslog-ng] Please install config files in /etc/syslog-ng/ hierarchy
Does this mean I need to move my config file _again_? I remember this was in /etc/syslog-ng/, then moved to /etc/, and now it is moved back.
Can anyone please explain to me how this changing back and forth is justified? If pacman would behave better with moving config files, I wouldn't be bothered, but I need to move around my configuration manually each time this happens.
I'm not sure when/why the configuration file moved from /etc/syslog-ng/ previously. My recollection is that there was a single configuration file so using /etc/syslog-ng.conf probably made sense then.
I checked an old package and it had a single config file: /etc/syslog-ng.conf so that's probably what happened.
However, if you look at the configuration files now, they really need moved back. /etc/modules.conf is just a really bad filename for a syslog-ng file...
Agree. Now we have several config files and there will be a patterndb.d directory that will need to be added. Better have all this stuff together in their own directory. I suppose the chance of going back to a single config file is very slim so it'll probably be the last time that these files will be moved. Also, all the other major distros I checked have the configs in /etc/syslog-ng/.