From owner-cvs-usrsbin Fri Jan 3 06:19:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA23233 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 06:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA23228; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 06:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA05787 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:46:11 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 3 Jan 97 16:46:10 +0300 Received: from localhost (nagual.ru [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA00404; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:42:54 +0300 (MSK) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:42:53 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7_=2F_Andrey_Chern?= =?KOI8-R?Q?ov?= To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c In-Reply-To: <199701030713.XAA04264@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > jkh 97/01/02 23:13:23 > > Modified: usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c > Log: > Unlink LogName before attempting to open it. Since we now have a lovely > bug in syslogd which causes it to die after random amounts of time (widely > reported), this at least allows the administrator to easily restart it > without wondering why it simply exits again each time. You broke logging of messages which goes before socket open this way, please back it out. BTW, we definitely no need in such hackery, no fix is even better that masking real bug because it allows to find right solution in future and masking not allows to solve it at all. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/