> On Sep 11, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Philip Prindeville 
> <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering why the loggers (except ubox) are all started as priority 20 
> (same as “network”):
> 
> $ grep START= package/system/ubox/files/log.init 
> feeds/packages/net/ulogd/files/ulogd.init 
> feeds/packages/net/rsyslog/files/rsyslog.init 
> feeds/packages/admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.init 
> package/system/ubox/files/log.init:START=12
> feeds/packages/net/ulogd/files/ulogd.init:START=20
> feeds/packages/net/rsyslog/files/rsyslog.init:START=20
> feeds/packages/admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.init:START=20
> $ 
> 
> seems to me that (a) there’s no dependency on the network service being up 
> before the logger starts, since it uses an unbound socket anyway (and hence 
> will do the right thing if more interfaces are added, deleted, or otherwise 
> changed) and (b) it’s entirely possible that at some point we might want to 
> add logging to earlier startup scripts or services, such as S19dhcpd (also 
> started before the network comes up)…
> 
> I’ve played with starting syslog-ng at level 12 (same as box’s logger) and it 
> had no obvious ill-effects.
> 
> Anyone see any reason to not proceed with changing it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip


There’s a PR up to this end:

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/4818

P.S. I don’t have a current address for Dov Murik… and the one in the Makefile 
for the maintainer bounces.
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