On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 23:49, Julio Emanuel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 18:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> Now, for the part I didn't manage to solve yet: the syslog-ng service
>>> also spits this warning (error?) when starting: "Error resolving user;
>>> user='system'", but I have the 'vanilla' system entry in /etc/passwd:
>>> ~ $ grep system /etc/passwd
>>> system:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
>>> and indeed all does seem well:
>>> ~ $ id system
>>> uid=18(system) gid=544(Administrators) groups=544(Administrators)
>>>
>>> Is it any misleading message, maybe?
>>
>> Is the /etc/syslog-ng.conf file owned by the system user?
>>
>
> ~ $ ls -l /etc/syslog-ng.conf
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 security Domain Users 1171 Mar 19 16:07 /etc/syslog-ng.conf
>
> No it isn't. it is owned by an admin user named 'security' . Should be
> owned by system?
> Note that the default config contains the lines
> owner("SYSTEM");
> group("root");
> perm(0660);
> that defines the default ownership and mode of created files.
> But this IS working:
> ~ $ ls -l /var/log/*messages
> -rw-rw---- 1 system root 1854 Mar 19 23:28 /var/log/20090319_messages
>
> And so this error message (from /var/log/syslog-ng.log) seems to be
> misleading...
> Is there anything I can do to help hunting down the root cause (if
> there is a need to do so)?
>
Answering to myself: after some source code analysis, I've arrived to
this tiny function in misc.c:
gboolean
resolve_user(const char *user, uid_t *uid)
{
struct passwd *pw;
*uid = 0;
if (*user)
return FALSE;
pw = getpwnam(user);
if (pw)
{
*uid = pw->pw_uid;
}
else
{
gchar *endptr;
*uid = strtol(user, &endptr, 0);
if (*endptr)
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
Now, it's been some time that I coded something in C, but I could bet
that first if should be "if (!*user)" - notice the NOT...
Because that's precisely the trigger (this function returning FALSE)
needed to generate the error message I've been seeing.
Now the mistery part is: how come this is even working, at least in cygwin? :)
Can anybody confirm my findings, please?
_________
Julio Costa
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