Bug#1084924: The system-log-daemon virtual package

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon 28 Oct 2024 at 09:43am +01, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:

> It seems like there are some words missing or incorrect in this
> sentence, could you please clarify?

Ooops, thanks.

I got the last two the wrong way around.

Here are the four cases again, corrected:

> * No logging facility.

systemctl disable systemd-journald

systemd-journald-is-syslog can remain or installed or be removed
depending on whether the sysadmin wants to assert to other packages that
a logging facility if available, even though one isn't actually running.

>  * systemd-journald logging to /var/log/journal

This is the default.  systemd-journald-is-syslog is installed.

>  * A traditional system-log-daemon such as rsyslog running on sysvinit.

Well, in this case, systemd and systemd-* are not installed, and rsyslog
Provides system-log-daemon.

>  * systemd-journald forwarding logs to a traditional system-log-daemon
>    such as rsyslog.

The sysadmin installs rsyslog, which deinstalls
systemd-journald-is-syslog, in the usual way with virtual packages.
Nothing else about the systemd installation changes.

-- 
Sean Whitton