Re: syslogd preopen console

2017-09-16 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
On Wed, Sep 13 2017, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > Hi, > > syslogd has special code for reporting errors before it has been > initialized. Then it tries to log to console. For every message > it reopens the console with file descriptor passing from the privsep > parent. Of course that does not work

Re: syslogd preopen console

2017-09-14 Thread Bryan Steele
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > Hi, > > syslogd has special code for reporting errors before it has been > initialized. Then it tries to log to console. For every message > it reopens the console with file descriptor passing from the privsep > parent. Of cours

syslogd preopen console

2017-09-13 Thread Alexander Bluhm
Hi, syslogd has special code for reporting errors before it has been initialized. Then it tries to log to console. For every message it reopens the console with file descriptor passing from the privsep parent. Of course that does not work when we have reached our file descriptor limit. I think