Why does Karmic not provide a syslog.conf manpage?

[Detlef Lechner]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Detlef Lechner wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> Why does Karmic not provide a syslog.conf manpage although it writes 
>> syslogs?
>> '~$ man syslog.conf; No manual entry for syslog.conf'.
>> The Internet does provide one, though: 
>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/syslog.conf.
>>     
>
> It's actually available from two packages.  Here's how I figured that out:
>
> man 5 syslog.conf
> man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz: No such file or
> directory
> No manual entry for syslog.conf in section 5
>
> apt-file update
>
> apt-file search /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz
>
> inetutils-syslogd: /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz
> sysklogd: /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz
>
> You probably only want one of these.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
Karmic does not install by default the DEB program package 
'inetutils-syslogd'. Still Karmic provides a file /var/log/syslog. Thus 
I find the Synaptic statement: "system logging daemon: The syslog daemon 
is responsible for providing logging of messages received from programs 
and facilities on the local host as well as from remote hosts." wrong or 
at least misleading. According to Synaptic's text I should not have a 
file /var/log/syslog as I did not install the DEB program package 
'inetutils-syslogd'.  --  Can you comment.

Detlef Lechner