slackware-current/source/a/sysklogd/config/rc.syslog.new

#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop/restart the system logging daemons.
#
# Written for Slackware Linux by Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>.

# Uncomment the following line to use the -c option to syslogd.  This will
# disable suppressing repeated messages, which may be useful with tools that
# parse the logs, such as fail2ban:
#SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c "

# Options for klogd:
# '-c 3' = display level 'error' or higher messages on console
# '-x' = turn off broken EIP translation
KLOGD_OPTIONS="-c 3 -x"

syslogd_start() {
  if [ -x /usr/sbin/syslogd -a -x /usr/sbin/klogd ]; then
    echo -n "Starting sysklogd daemons:  "
    echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd ${SYSLOGD_OPTIONS};"
    /usr/sbin/syslogd $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS
    # prevent syslogd/klogd race condition on SMP kernels
    if ps acx | grep -q udevd ; then
      while [ ! -e /dev/log ] ; do
        sleep 0
      done
    else
      sleep 1
    fi
    # Run klogd, unless we are in a container:
    if [ -z $container ]; then
      echo " /usr/sbin/klogd $KLOGD_OPTIONS"
      /usr/sbin/klogd $KLOGD_OPTIONS
    fi
  fi
}

syslogd_stop() {
  killall syslogd 2> /dev/null
  killall klogd 2> /dev/null
}

syslogd_restart() {
  syslogd_stop
  sleep 1
  syslogd_start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  syslogd_start
  ;;
'stop')
  syslogd_stop
  ;;
'restart')
  syslogd_restart
  ;;
*)
  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac