Starting syslog-ng

Question

I've recently installed syslog-ng but am confused about how to start it (on Fedora).

I do:

/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start 

which reports that it's started ok. However, it doesn't actually do anything until I do:

/sbin/syslog-ng

at which point it starts behaving as I'd expect. Is this expected behaviour?

Solution

Recent Fedora versions ship with systemd. There you could change to syslog-ng using the following commands:

yum install syslog-ng
systemctl disable rsyslog.service 
systemctl enable syslog-ng.service
systemctl stop rsyslog.service
systemctl start syslog-ng.service

At the end probably also remove rsyslog with rpm -e rsyslog.

Comments

[rozcietrzewiacz]

Does /etc/init.d/syslog-ng exist regardless of syslog-ng being installed or not on Fedora? And it starts the default logger daemon, regardless of script's name?