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Re: bind and syslog



* Steve Greenland said:
> On 18-Dec-99, 16:29 (CST), Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> wrote: 
> > Of course :)) - forget about my ramblings :)). I don't know why but I
> > imagined that libc doesn't know the openlog() parameters the application
> > used when it reopens the connection.
> 
> Ahh. That's why I didn't think it was a big deal for syslog() to handle
> the SIGPIPE (even given the execution of an openlog()), and you did.
yes :)
 
> Actually, it sounds now like it does at least trap the SIGPIPE, and thus
> avoid the client program exiting, but it still doesn't log it correctly
> (sending it to the console instead of syslog). It ought to make at least
> one attempt after catching the signal.
I didn't look into the libc sources yet, but it might seem the code doesn't
really reopen correctly the connection to /dev/log outputting the messages
to /dev/console instead...

marek

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