Unable to disable "CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG"

[walter harms]

Am 27.07.2015 17:23, schrieb Alfonso Ranieri:
> Il 27/07/2015 17:03, walter harms ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> Am 27.07.2015 15:58, schrieb purushi1 .:
>>> Excellent, just as you suggested, i did all the changes and
>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG is disabled now.
>>>
>>> Thank you so much. Appreciate your quick and precise solutions.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Purushotham.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Bartosz Gołaszewski
>>> <bartekgola at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2015-07-27 11:45 GMT+02:00 purushi1 . <purushi1 at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Hi Bartosz Golaszewski,
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave it a try and its the same result :(.
>>>>> I disabled the following in  defaults/config.busybox and build the
>>>> kernel.
>>
>>
>> Interestingly it seems a bit complicated to have a system without
>> syslogd.
>> Do we have a todo list ? i would suggest added to check if this is really
>> needed.
>>
>> re,
>>   wh
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_INIT=n
>>>>> CONFIG_GETTY=n
>>>>> CONFIG_LOGIN=n
>>>>> CONFIG_PASSWD=n
>>>>> CONFIG_SU=n
>>>>> CONFIG_SULOGIN=n
>>>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS=n
>>>>> CONFIG_MOUNT=n
>>>>> CONFIG_CROND=n
>>>>> CONFIG_DEVFSD=n
>>>>> CONFIG_NAMEIF=n
>>>>> CONFIG_FAK=n
>>>>> and
>>>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG=n
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> bash-3.2$ grep -r "CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG" ./user/busybox/.config
>>>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG=y
>>>>> # CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOGD_DUP is not set
>>>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOGD_CFG=y
>>>>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOGD_READ_BUFFER_SIZE=256
>>>>>
>>>>> Please advice if I am missing something here.
>>>>
>>>> There's no such thing as CONFIG_FAK - the list got cut in my previous
>>>> e-mail. It was supposed to be:
>>>>
>>>> Symbol: FEATURE_SYSLOG [=y]
>>>>      Selected by: INIT || GETTY || LOGIN || PASSWD || SU || SULOGIN ||
>>>> FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS && MOUNT || CROND || DEVFSD || NAMEIF || FAKEIDENTD
>>>> || INETD || TELNETD || ZCIP || LOGGER
>>>>
>>>> I checked it and it works for me - disabling all these options
>>>> disables CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Bartosz Golaszewski
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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> 
> that option makes busybox applets log messages to syslog, it doesn't
> compile syslogd
> 

ok, i understand now better
ntl. it should be possible to replace that with stderr (what ever that is)
So people can avoid syslog if they want to.