Having written the previous post on how to get the syslog-ng package to relocated properly on Solaris 10, I found this post by the folks at the Open Systems group on installing syslog-ng on Solaris 10. The advantage about this package over the sunfreeware version is that it has the svc vodoo all included.

What the blogger did not cover is the dependency of syslog-ng on libol. It is not quite clear as to where the libol library needs to be installed in this case of custom prefix and/or how to tell syslog-ng install about the location of libol library set.

According to the syslog-ng FAQ,

A built copy of libol needs to be present on a system when these versions of syslog-ng are built.

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