pflogd -p problems

[Didier Wiroth]

Hello,

I'm running current (a few days old).

I would like to log some traffic to the pflog1 interface. Everything works 
fine except a problem with pflogd and the -p switch.

I use the following as default:
1) pflogd -s 116 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog
The process is:
$ cat /var/run/pflogd.pid
9293

Everything is fine here!


Now, I would like to use the following for the pflog1 interface:
1) pflogd -s 116 -i pflog1 -f /var/log/pflog1 -p /var/log/pflogd1.pid

But the -p switch doesn't work -p /var/log/pflogd1.pid, pflogd does not
write the PID to pflogd1.pid ...
sudo cat /var/run/pflogd1.pid returns nothing. 
It looks like -p is simply ignored.

The (old/previous) PID file is still the same which is actually normal ... but 
just in case ...:
$ sudo cat /var/run/pflogd.pid
9293

Here is the output of pstree:
$ pstree -s pflogd -w
-+= 1 root /sbin/init
 |-+= 09293 root pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
 | \--- 18342 _pflogd pflogd: [running] -s 116 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog 
(pflogd)
 \-+= 19480 root pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
   \--- 19710 _pflogd pflogd: [running] -s 116 -i pflog1 -f /var/log/pflog1 
(pflogd)

I'm not a specialist and may be I overlooked something.

How can I make this to work:
pflogd -s 116 -i pflog1 -f /var/log/pflog1 -p /var/log/pflogd1.pid

Thanks a lot!!!

Didier

Re: pflogd -p problems

[Okan Demirmen]

On Mon 2008.01.14 at 14:17 +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote:
 How can I make this to work:
 pflogd -s 116 -i pflog1 -f /var/log/pflog1 -p /var/log/pflogd1.pid

you want:
pflogd -s 116 -i pflog1 -f /var/log/pflog1 -p pflogd1

which will write /var/run/pflogd1.pid .