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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: porting newsyslog to solaris
Date: 23 May 1997 10:25:05 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33861FD3.D334E9D1@skyinet.net>,
"Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <dune@skyinet.net> writes:
> Hi !!!
>
> I like the newsyslog of FreeBSD very much that I want to install
> it in Solaris 2.5. Solaris 2.5 has a newsyslog but I am not quite
> satisfied with its performance.
>
> Is this possible? What are the steps that I have to do if it is
> possible?
>
> So far what I did is to upload the source of FreeBSD's newsyslog
> and include files to Solaris 2.5 and try to compile from there.
> Now, my problem is to get rid of the warnings and an error. Most
> of them are conflicts in redefinitions and one of them is a parse
> error.
>
> Would I be making progress here ?
You're going about things the right way. My only suggestion is
that you take the -current newsyslog. It allows you to specify
a pid file to use to specify the program to -HUP when the log
file is rotated. Very handy for programs that don't use
syslogd.
This isn't in 2.2 (yet).
You can find the -current sources on
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/
> Thank you very much.
>
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !