0004409: Installing syslog_ng package disables default Solaris syslog service when autoenable_daemons=no

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0004409

[syslog_ng] packaging

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2010-04-27 20:57

2014-03-24 00:50

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ckmehta1

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maciej

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fixed

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0004409: Installing syslog_ng package disables default Solaris syslog service when autoenable_daemons=no

Description

While syslog_ng respects the autoenable_daemons=no setting in /opt/csw/etc/csw.conf

when you install the syslog_ng package, by default it ALWAYS disables the Solaris syslog service in the CSWsyslogng/install/preinstall script:
/usr/sbin/svcadm disable svc:/system/system-log:default
regardless of the autoenable setting.

This is an issue if you want to install the package for availability over NFS/non-global-zones, but don't want to automatically disable syslog on the primary-machine's global-zone and leave the system without any form of syslog.

Two possible autoenable settings that are applicable here would be:
autoenable_daemons=
autoenable_cswsyslog_ng=

Hopefully the preinstall script can take the autoenable features into account in /opt/csw/etc/csw.conf

Additional Information

In Solaris 10, one way to bullet-proof the process is to alter the script:
/etc/opt/csw/init.d/cswsyslog_ng
to check for the original syslog service being online with a command like:
svcs svc:/system/system-log:default | egrep "^online"

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(0008240) skayser (administrator) 2010-09-02 16:09	We are currently running into the same issue. We'd like to offer syslog-ng as a cluster service without actually touching the node local system-log service. Once we install CSWsyslogng on one of the nodes though, the node local system-log SMF service gets disabled. As we (at OpenCSW) have taken the route to not touch system services in other areas (postfix, cups), would it be possible to not disable system-log? At least if autoenable_daemons == no.

(0009765) maciej (reporter) 2012-03-25 08:54	I pushed a new syslog-ng package which does not disable syslogd.

(0010782) maciej (reporter) 2014-03-24 00:50	Please reopen if still not fixed.