[syslog-ng] [syslog-ng 3.6.1] booting with openrc, but syslog-ng thinks i boot with sytemd

Balazs Scheidler bazsi77 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 12:27:33 CET 2014


Hi,

Viktor could you pls share the fix for this? I know I promised to port it,
but got distracted.

Thanks.
On Dec 4, 2014 11:36 AM, "LoneVVolf" <lonewolf at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  On 04-12-14 09:58, Tibor Benke wrote:
>
> I think you've found a bug in service-management.c:
>
>
> https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/blob/master/lib/service-management.c#L158-L171
>
>  If you have syslog-ng compiled with --enable-systemd, it will always be
> the active service-management unit. I thought we addressed this in a patch
> by jviktor.
>
> Tibor,
>
> Is that code run during compiling/building or at run-time ?
> Archlinux developers build packages on machines with an archlinux base
> installation with systemd installed & active .
> If service-management.c is executed at build-time, that would explain why
> syslog-ng tries to use systemd on my system.
>
> Given the multi-platform support of syslog-ng i would expect such checks
> to be executed at run-time .
>
>
>
>
> 2014-12-04 0:04 GMT+01:00 Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Also, you might want to use the system() source, which tries to determine
>> the optimal setup to fetch local messages. So no need to use I unix-dgram
>> or internal directly.
>>
>   Balazs, thanks for the tip. After the problem is fixed, i'll look into
> using that.
>
>
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