On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:51:31PM -0700, John De Boskey wrote:
> Comments on the following patch. The messages
> are invisible with a default install. This patch
> gets them into /var/log/messages where they can be
> seen.
I have a different fix for this at home, included below. It uses
syslog's LOG_PERROR flag when initially calling openlog. It then
reopens the log without the LOG_PERROR when/if it becomes a daemon.
David.
diff -u -r1.96 inetd.c
--- inetd.c 8 May 2002 17:20:08 -0000 1.96
+++ inetd.c 13 May 2002 23:02:35 -0000
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
const char *servname;
int error;
- openlog("inetd", LOG_PID | LOG_NOWAIT, LOG_DAEMON);
+ openlog("inetd", LOG_PID | LOG_NOWAIT | LOG_PERROR, LOG_DAEMON);
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "dlwWR:a:c:C:p:")) != -1)
switch(ch) {
@@ -434,6 +434,9 @@
if (daemon(0, 0) < 0) {
syslog(LOG_WARNING, "daemon(0,0) failed: %m");
}
+ /* From now on we don't want syslog messages going to stderr. */
+ closelog();
+ openlog("inetd", LOG_PID | LOG_NOWAIT, LOG_DAEMON);
/*
* In case somebody has started inetd manually, we need to
* clear the logname, so that old servers run as root do not
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