[ovirt-users] vdsm dependency rsyslog?

[Alon Bar-Lev]

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> From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, ybronhei at redhat.com
> Cc: "Users at ovirt.org List" <Users at ovirt.org>, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 4:20:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] vdsm dependency rsyslog?
> 
> well as I already elaborated (with more detail in the BZ, though).
> ( Bug 1083100 - vdsm depends on rsyslog )
> 
> vdsm crashes if /dev/log is not there.
> 

It should not crash if /dev/log is not available. Having syslog or /dev/log should be optional.

> the devs where a little inaccurate and added the dependency
> for rsyslog, but the real dependency is on /dev/log, which is also
> satisfied by e.g. syslog-ng.

I do not see that this is a standard nor rsyslog provides this.

> 
> so if someone wants to use syslog-ng on rhel maybe because it is
> already used in other infrastructure you still have to install rsyslogd
> for no use?

The problem is that we usually part software part integration, configuring other components when we install ours, this creates tight coupling between what we can support.

However, in this case I do not see we try to configure rsyslog, so rsyslog should be completely optional.

If we want integration type solution, the rsyslog or any other logger should be installed and enabled using host-deploy.

> 
> 
> Am 11.04.2014 15:10, schrieb Itamar Heim:
> > wouldn't that just be a dependency change for the package for the other
> > distro's? its not like they will use the rhel spec anyway?
> 
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