On 04/10/2008 Luk Claes wrote: > Can you please provide a proposed text (license: GPL v2) regarding the > switch of the default system log daemo to include in the release notes? > > It should not be too technical (a pointer to README.Debian for the > technical details would do), but should mention that it's something > which doesn't happen automatically while upgrading etc. Hello, Attached is a first rough patch. I guess it's better than nothing. Feel free to improve it as you want. License is GPLv2. greetings, jonas
--- whats-new.dbk.orig 2008-10-10 01:58:17.000000000 +0200 +++ whats-new.dbk 2008-10-10 02:08:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -359,6 +359,25 @@ </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> +<term>New default syslog daemon</term> +<listitem> +<para> +The default syslog daemon for &releasename; is <systemitem +role="package">rsyslog</systemitem> instead of <systemitem +role="package">sysklogd</systemitem>. <systemitem +role="package">rsyslog</systemitem> is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and +can be used as a drop-in replacement. In most cases it should be sufficient to +copying /etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.conf. +</para> +<para> +Users upgrading from &oldreleasename; need to install <systemitem +role="package">rsyslog</systemitem> and remove <systemitem +role="package">sysklogd</systemitem> manually. The default syslog daemon is +not replaced automatically at the upgrade to &releasename;. +</para> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> +<varlistentry> <term>Default <command>vi</command> clone changed</term> <listitem> <para>
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