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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Smokeping.pm | 12 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ - +* don't die if syslogd is dead -- niko, reported by + Christoph Biedl <cbiedl *gmx.de> as Debian bug #395056 * add sourceaddress configurability to FPing probe (requires -S flag) -- Norman Rasmussen norman rasmussen.co.za * allow . in section names ... * in FTPtransfer probe set destfilename to srcfilename if it is empty diff --git a/lib/Smokeping.pm b/lib/Smokeping.pm index 04e320d..3f76a7e 100644 --- a/lib/Smokeping.pm +++ b/lib/Smokeping.pm @@ -2705,12 +2705,22 @@ sub daemonize_me ($) { $syslog_priority = $pri if defined $pri; print "Note: logging to syslog as $syslog_facility/$syslog_priority.\n"; openlog(basename($0), 'pid', $syslog_facility); + eval { + syslog($syslog_priority, 'Starting syslog logging'); + }; + die("can't log to syslog: $@") if $@; } sub do_syslog ($){ my $str = shift; $str =~ s,%,%%,g; - syslog("$syslog_facility|$syslog_priority", $str); + eval { + syslog("$syslog_facility|$syslog_priority", $str); + }; + # syslogd is probably dead if that failed + # this message is most probably lost too, if we have daemonized + # let's try anyway, it shouldn't hurt + print STDERR qq(Can't log "$str" to syslog: $@) if $@; } sub do_cgilog ($){ |