Your message dated Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:21:23 +0200
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and subject line sid uses unix-dgram()
has caused the Debian Bug report #384802,
regarding wrong type for the /dev/log socket
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Package: syslog-ng
Severity: normal
The default syslog-ng.conf contains this comment:
# standard Linux log source (this is the default place for the syslog()
# function to send logs to)
unix-stream("/dev/log");
But it is wrong: as you can easily verify using strace, libc by default
uses datagram sockets (which for the AF_UNIX family are as reliable as
stream sockets):
$ strace -e trace=socket logger test
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = 1
$
For this reason, the default configuration should use unix-dgram.
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Version: 3.2.4-1
The version currently in sid (3.2.4-1) uses unix-dgram(). I'm not quite
sure when it started to do that, as the changelog does not seem to
document it. But at least in sid, this is fixed.
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