Bug#2552: syslogd and race conditions

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Package: syslogd
Version: 1.2-19

syslogd appears to be affected by some race condition so that it won't
necessarily start up reliably.  I don't know if the race condition is
in syslogd or in the kernel.  I don't know if configuring syslogd to
write to /dev/xconsole has anything to do with it.  I suspect that
there are factors I'm not really aware of here.

Anyways, syslogd usually recovers (with a SIGALRM), but not
consistently in my configuration.

For the moment, I've modified my copy of /etc/init.d/sysklogd to
restart syslogd after starting klogd:

...
case "$1" in
  start)
    start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /sbin/syslogd
    start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /sbin/klogd
    killall -HUP syslogd	# restart syslogd
    ;;
...

This seems to help quite a bit.

--
Raul