syslog and LOG_KERN broken

Matthias Urlichs smurf@noris.net
Sun Mar 19 17:51:00 GMT 2000


Hi,

"Dr. Werner Fink":
> Hmmm ... the klogd of sysklogd-1.3-33 has its own syslog() which is
> a copy of an older syslog() libc5/glibc

... and which is broken.

For proof, restart syslogd. Notice that klogd doesn't log any more;
you'll have to restart klogd to fix it.

(I just observed this on RedHat 5.1.)

That kind of bug, long-solved in the glibc version of syslog(), is
the reason why "has its own ANYTHING" is a bad idea in general.

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