Why does Karmic not provide a syslog.conf manpage?

[Detlef Lechner]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Detlef Lechner wrote:
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>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>> Detlef Lechner wrote:
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>> 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. 
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> Why?  Actually, by default, Ubuntu provides logging via rsyslog (it's in 
> main - sysklogd and inetutils-syslogd are in universe), and rsyslog provides 
> syslog.conf and a man page for it.  inetutils-syslogd is only one of quite a 
> few ways to get a syslog daemon, but I'm sure from its authors point of 
> view, it was "the" daemon when he first wrote it).
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>> 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.
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> All that says is that /var/log/syslog is explicitly provided by inetutils-
> syslogd.  Nothing says another package can't create it in its post-install 
> script.
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Thank you for explaining.

Detlef