[syslog-ng] bugtraq down + cwd bug

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Tue Jun 3 11:11:30 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:21 +0300, Aleksandr Stankevic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that the bugtraq is down. I've sent an email to
> webmaster at balabit.com about this.

It should be up and running now. The migration to apache2 didn't work
without problems as it seems.

> 
> Also, recently i've noticed a little bug in syslog-ng.
> It seems that syslog-ng doesn't chdir() to / when daemonizing. Without
> this, it holds a nopen fd to the dir it is run from.
> 
> Without it chdir()'ing to / i can't unmount the filesystem in which i
> was when i started syslog-ng.

Right, it used to do that. I've just pushed a patch to syslog-ng OSE 2.1
git tree that does this, it should apply cleanly to 2.0 as well.

-- 
Bazsi




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