[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#681639: [nyk: Re: Bug#681639: initscripts: no longer updates /var/log/dmesg]

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

On 17.07.2012 23:52, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> We removed the bootlogs script because it was believed to be made
> redundant by modern logging daemons.  However, this was not taking
> into account the fact that even though the information is logged,
> it is eventually rotated and lost.
> 
> I've assigned it to rsyslog as the default logging daemon, and
> because Nicholas said that it was already doing this in Ubuntu.
> We can certainly re-add the bootlogs script in initscripts if
> this is still needed, and is the best place for it.  Otherwise,
> I can file additional bugs against the other loggers.

I count 7 packages providing system-log-daemon.

It seems kinda odd to me, that we should duplicate that functionality in
7 packages. Don't you agree?

bootlogd doesn't look like the right place either.

As this particular log file is about the actual boot process only, I
kinda feel it doesn't belong into rsyslog but naturally fits into
sysvinit/initscripts.

Michael

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