[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#962839: syslog-ng-core: Conflicting help messages, bad control socket location

[Attila Szalay]

Hi,

finally I was able to do some investigation related to this ticket.

The syslog-ng manpage need to be updated and I'll do that.

On the other hand, the ${localstatedir} and the ${exec_prefix} is more
like an upstream decision in how to handle things, than an actual bug.
For some reason, they decided to centralize the path handling into one
place (lib/reloc.c) and in every place they save the paths with the
variable and only expand the variables at use time. But for some
reason, the help screen is not counting as a use time and they did not
expand it.

Of course this can be also seen as a bug and for that reason I've
created a ticket in the upstream ticketing system to iron this out.

The upstream ticket is:
https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/issues/4138