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Subject: Re: boot ordering and syslogd
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Doug Barton wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> I tried to use syslog to debug an issue with dhclient and noticed 
>> that syslogd is started too late for it to work.  This is because 
>> dhclient operates in a chroot jail so must setup it's connection to 
>> syslogd before privsep work is done.  This seems like a general 
>> problem and one that should be fixed.
>>
>> Anyone got an idea how to correct this?
>
> It's a chicken-and-egg issue because if you need the network to do 
> remote syslog'ing (or syslog'ing to an NFS partition, etc.), you need 
> the network up first.
>
> What I've done in similar situations is to modify a copy of 
> dhclient-script to spit out data to a text file. If you need something 
> more robust you could always change the ordering locally. If you need 
> help with that just let us know.

Er, this is a problem that needs to be fixed; not hacked around w/ local 
mods.  We are losing logging that makes diagnosing problems hard.

    Sam