Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On May 5, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Sam Leffler wrote: >> Regarding syslogd, I've considered adding support to batch/buffer >> writes to workaround a problem that I consider rather important: >> syslogd is not started early enough in the boot so it's not available >> to log msgs from other applications. In particular I hit this >> because wpa_supplicant logs via syslog but when it's started at boot >> syslogd isn't available and since wpa_supplicant operates in a >> chroot'd environment it cannot defer connecting until syslogd has >> started up so nothing is ever logged. >> [ ... ] > > > You can use -l flag to syslogd to create additional logging sockets > under your chroot'ed filesystem tree, similar to the way named & ntpd > uses it; see syslogd_precmd() in /etc/rc.d/syslogd.... > > Regards, Blech, thanks. That might be a stopgap solution but it still doesn't allow syslogd to be started earlier which is what is needed for many/most setups. syslogd has mountcritremote as REQUIRE to handle diskless setups but IMO this should be (at least) configurable. But rather than argue this nonsense I think the better solution is to do what I suggest so syslogd can be started very early and capture everything available (e.g. your suggestion still loses msgs logged while setting up nfs mounts). SamReceived on Mon May 11 2009 - 18:13:37 UTC
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