Dear readers, I have an openBSD just freshly updated to 7.3. Amazing release, Thank you
I run ttyd on it, a tty over http small demon and because i like log level i run a custom rc script nothing fancy here : daemon_user=support rc_bg=YES and in rc_start su -fl -c ${daemon_class} -s /bin/sh ${daemon_user} -c "SHELL=/bin/ksh ${daemon} ${daemon_flags} 2>&1 | /usr/local/bin/ttyd.logger.pl" Which i am updating with new pipe tools. (!| or |!) ; ttyd.logger.pl is simple , read log put a level on it: =================================== #!/usr/bin/perl use Sys::Syslog qw(:standard :macros); openlog("ttyd", "pid", "daemon"); while (my $l = <>) { # [2020/10/20 09:58:39:7131] NOTICE: $l =~ /\[[^]]+\]\s(\w+):/; my $ll = $1 ? $1 : "info"; if ( $ll eq "ERR" ) { $ll = "err"; } elsif ( $ll eq "WARN" ) { $ll = "warning"; } elsif ( $ll eq "NOTICE") { $ll = "info"; # ttyd is way to verbose } elsif ( $ll eq "INFO") { $ll = "info"; } elsif ( $ll eq "DEBUG") { $ll = "debug"; } else { $ll = "notice"; #notice unknown } syslog($ll, $l); } =================================== When looking at top, something surprise me ( this is the actual question ): 34172 support -6 0 4860K 8992K sleep/0 piperd 0:00 0.78% /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin//ttyd.logger.pl *The priority is -6* (why , how) First this is not nice ( ha ha ) and I am quite sure this is completely controlled by the kernel. # id support uid=1001(support) gid=1001(support) groups=1001(support), 67(www) How can a basic user get a -6 PRIO ? This feels very wrong. I fear syslog in perl is doing something unexpected, Please help and/or educate on this.