Running the OVS daemons with strace option enabled will block if we pipe the output. We use tee to log the output of ovs-ctl to ovs-ctl.log
This patch disables the startup script logging when we run the OVS daemons with the strace option. Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> --- utilities/ovs-lib.in | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-lib.in b/utilities/ovs-lib.in index a441c3d..f7b5bd4 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-lib.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-lib.in @@ -38,8 +38,18 @@ else fi ovs_ctl () { - echo "`date -u`:$@" >> "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" - "${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" 2>&1 | tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" + case "$@" in + *"=strace"*) + # In case of running the daemon with strace, piping the o/p causes + # the script to block (strace probably does not close the inherited + # pipe). So, do not log the o/p to ovs-ctl.log. + "${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" + ;; + *) + echo "`date -u`:$@" >> "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" + "${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" 2>&1 | tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" + ;; + esac } VERSION='@VERSION@' -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev