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5.) YOU NEED TO DECIDE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REPLACE THE STANDARD SYSLOGD OR NOT!
The is important as it influences the names used. If you call
make install
- it will install this program under the name of rsyslogd. If you call it with
+ it will install this program under the name of syslogd, but it will save the
+ previous syslogd binary under the name of syslogd-previous. If you call it with
make install-replace
- it will replace the existing syslogd, but save the former one under the name
- of syslogd-previous. If you run install-replace multiple times, your
- syslogd-previous will be OVERWRITTEN!
+ it will just replace the existing syslogd, but NOT save the former one under
+ the name of syslogd-previous.
+ If you run install multiple times, your syslogd-previous will be OVERWRITTEN!
In either case, the system startup files will not be touched. If you use
install-replace, everthing should work as always, but if it doesn't, you've
probably discovered a beta bug ;) In any case, to use the new features, you