On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 21/10/12 17:28, gt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as
> > a dependency.
> >
> > I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed.
> > Then why is systemd needed for syslog-ng to run? As far i can see from
> > the diffs, nothing has changed apart from adding systemd as a
> > dependency.
> >
>
>
> Look in syslog-ng.conf:
>
> unix-dgram("/run/systemd/journal/syslog");
>
>
> That means, in its default configuration it requires systemd.
>
>
Well that, and the linker seems to want systemd as well:
$ objdump -p /usr/lib/syslog-ng/libafsocket.so | grep NEEDED
NEEDED libsyslog-ng-3.3.6.so
NEEDED libsyslog-ng-crypto.so
NEEDED libssl.so.1.0.0
NEEDED libcrypto.so.1.0.0
NEEDED libsystemd-daemon.so.0 <-- o hai
NEEDED libpthread.so.0
NEEDED libc.so.6
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