Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [0.6 Beta] 1 1/2 Bug Reports (Long Version)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Thanks for your bug report (as usual).
It's all fixed in CVS.

cya
   Heiko

Dean Nedelman wrote:
> [... I am still using the 08-08-i686-SMP version...]
> 
> I [finally] noticed that I was not receiving any messages from IPTables
> about dropped packets (my firewall.rules file is setup to log most packets
> that are dropped).  So, I started looking around...
> 
> I noticed that reloading (/etc/init.d/syslog reload) would "cure" the
> problem, so I determine that everything is probably properly configured.
> So, I kept digging...
> 
> I then noticed that the syslog daemon was logging the fact that is was
> restarting as part of the load.  I was able to determine that this happened
> when Postfix was started.  After the syslog daemon was restarted, I no
> longer received IPTables messages.
> 
> Looking over /etc/init.d/jail, I found out that it does a /etc/init.d/syslog
> reload!  So, I figured this was the "source" of my problem!
> 
> Looking over /etc/init.d/syslog, I reviewed the reload code.  I became
> suspicious of the hack that was in there to handle the killing of the klogd
> daemon.  To very that this was indeed the problem, I made two changes:
> 	o I removed the entire logic used to kill the klogd daemon and instead
> inserted a "killproc klogd" command.
> 	o For the restart of klogd, I changed it to read "loadproc klogd -c
> $KERNEL_LOGLEVEL".
> 
> Now, everything works! [The first bug report.]
> 
> I presume that some of the problem is related to the fact that the previous
> method of killing the daemon did not properly cleanup the file
> /var/run/klogd.pid - but I could be wrong.
> 
> And, while I was reviewing /etc/init.d/syslog, I noticed that it was still
> using the "old" 0.5 reference for the jail area (checking for /jail/$A/...
> so as to remove them from syslog-ng.conf).  These statements are probably
> harmless (as the current system has /etc/init.d/jail ADDING entries to the
> syslog-ng.conf file - thus the reload).  [The 1/2 of a bug report]
> 
> Dean Nedelman
> TimeLord Consulting
> 
> 
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