If /dev/log doesn't exist or cannot be contacted, ovs-monitor-ipsec would abort with an exception. This allows it to start up and run.
It's pretty common for a chroot used for testing not to have a syslogd instance set up and running, so this limitation caused testing problems. Reported-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> --- debian/ovs-monitor-ipsec | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/ovs-monitor-ipsec b/debian/ovs-monitor-ipsec index 0a97c88..a9af8ec 100755 --- a/debian/ovs-monitor-ipsec +++ b/debian/ovs-monitor-ipsec @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import getopt import glob import logging, logging.handlers import os +import socket import subprocess import sys @@ -38,16 +39,18 @@ import ovs.util import ovs.daemon import ovs.db.idl - -# By default log messages as DAEMON into syslog s_log = logging.getLogger("ovs-monitor-ipsec") -l_handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler( - "/dev/log", - facility=logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON) -l_formatter = logging.Formatter('%(filename)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s') -l_handler.setFormatter(l_formatter) -s_log.addHandler(l_handler) - +try: + # By default log messages as DAEMON into syslog + l_handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler( + "/dev/log", + facility=logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON) + l_formatter = logging.Formatter('%(filename)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s') + l_handler.setFormatter(l_formatter) + s_log.addHandler(l_handler) +except socket.error, e: + logging.basicConfig() + s_log.warn("failed to connect to syslog (%s)" % e) setkey = "/usr/sbin/setkey" -- 1.7.4.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev