[gentoo-server] switch from syslog-ng to metalog

[Robert Larson]

Hello,

I recently setup some gentoo boxes that had syslog-ng setup on them.  Later I 
decided to go with metalog because it was what I already had on all of my 
servers.  I actually need them all to be metalog now, but when I made the 
switch I ran into problems.

Here's what I have done:
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
rc-update del syslog-ng
emerge -vaC syslog-ng
emerge metalog
mv /var/log /var/log.syslog-ng
mkdir /var/log
/etc/init.d/metalog start
rc-update add metalog default

Now the problem is, occasionally (I'm not sure what the pattern is) I will 
receive messages upon starting services:
 * Caching service dependencies ...
 *  Service 'syslog-ng' already provided by 'logger'!;
 *  Not adding service 'metalog'...     [ ok ]

And the other problem is that when looking 
through /var/log/everything/current, I find that hardly anything is getting 
logged anymore.

I couldn't really find much through google.  Any ideas?  Is there something 
that I may have missed?

Thank you in advance :)

Robert
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