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Re: Attn Colin: Overhelpful /usr/sbin/policy-remove-unwanted

From: Russell Coker <russell_at_coker.com.au>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:44:28 +1100


On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 05:14, Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
> Colin's /usr/sbin/policy-remove-unwanted gets into trouble
> when you are using syslog-ng and do not have klogd installed:

The syslog.te file has policy to allow syslog-ng to perform klogd functionality. Why don't you have syslogd working in that manner?

> I think he needs to special case this and either test
> for syslog-ng if the .te to be removed is klogd and
> klogd is not found; or else simply never remove klogd.te
> under any circumstance.

Making klogd.te depend on syslog-ng would be easy enough. But why is it necessary?

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