| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Steve Jones wrote: | | There are also strange system calls that differ, and I thought it might be due to the setuid(60001) -nobody- but the the non-daemn mode also sets to nobody and works fine. |
The elogd program opens the port (which might be below 1024 and thus needs privileges), then either become daemon or not, then changes to the user and group specified in elogd.cfg. So this behaviour should be the same on both cases.
| Steve Jones wrote: | | I just compiled SVN1723 and tried the generic elogd.cfg -- of course *that works!*. Something in my complex config that causes elog to barf when it is attempting to fork the daemon process. |
That's a good starting point. Take your config file, strip one option after the other, and see which is the offending one. This helps us tracking down the problem.
| Steve Jones wrote: | | I have no idea what "/var/run/syslog_door" is. |
I have not either. But one thing which is different in the daemon mode that all output is redirected to the syslog facility via the function call redirect_to_syslog();. This routine was not written by myself so I don't know 100% what it's doing, just under Linux it works fine. Try to outcomment this function and try again. |
| Steve Jones wrote: |
Ok, I've narrowed down the problem to a single attribute. I edited elogd_fancy.cfg as it ships with SVN1723 and found a real bug and an issue:
BUG: In the initial comment section of elogd_fancy.cfg the line # This [global] section contains settings common to all logbooks is not parsed correctly as a comment and the embedded [global] is picked up and confuses elogd, eg., elogd will not pickup the port=8080 option. Taking "[global]" out of the comment restores fucntionality. I recommend checking to make sure that the config file checking routine ignores *entire* lines starting with a comment char;
ISSUE: The option Logbook dir = causes an enormous amount of problems, and this may be limited to elog installs that exist in NFS space (as opposed to local disk). If the default is left alone elogd appears to work fine; Try and override and the fun begins. The previous attached traces show that once going into daemon mode none of the logbook dirs can be found nor indexed. The workaround is to use the default "logbooks" dir. Perhaps the routine that creates the default (if not found) should be the same as the one that creates the override (?).
I reproduced this behavior using the elogd_fancy.cfg that ships.
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