[16507] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.2.15: syslogd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Foley)
Wed Nov 25 03:21:13 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:21:11 EST
From: Joe Foley <foley@MIT.EDU>
System name: sledgehammer.mit.edu
Type and version: IP22 8.2.15 (with mkserv)
Display type: XZ
What were you trying to do?
Install a zephyring syslogd
What's wrong:
It straightaway fails to do anything useful other than
syslog the stop and start messages. Logger does not cause any
events to occur while watching it in -d mode.
Even worse:
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> So - got any additional info I should include in the bug report?
Well, the two things I've observed are that this is identical to
the Solaris lossage for the same program a while back, and that the
comments to the code would seem to indicate that the athena syslogd has,
in fact, never worked for Irix, so you might want to make your bug
report say "we shouldn't install something that's broken and allows
people to shoot themselves in the foot." If you want technical detail
of how I was able to make it delete /dev/log, I can probably recreate
that.
What should have happened:
It should have started up and begun acting g like a normal
syslogd but with zephyring ability. Also not mess with /dev/log
permissions
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Supposably the zephyr source code says that this syslogd has
never worked.
Joe
