severity 289235 important
thanks

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:42:50AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 27, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > This bug breaks the inn and inn2 packages.
> > How?  Such packages should not be touching logfiles directly that they don't
> > own.
> But they do, they always did and I do not expect that they will stop
> doing this in the immediate future. It may not be elegant, but
> historically the news.* syslog facility has always been dedicated to
> INN and managed by its daily maintenance script.
> This is documented in syslogd-listfiles(8) too.

And yet, this means the same problem would manifest on any system where the
admin had opted to change the syslog config.  I don't see that this should
be called a critical bug.

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