https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10380
Issue ID: 10380
Summary: file logger doesn't emit slapd startup/version info
Product: OpenLDAP
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needs_review
Severity: normal
Priority: ---
Component: slapd
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
When using syslog, a startup message is emitted which is useful in many
different contexts:
- signals a slapd restart to the admin
- shows the actual version used
- if a crash happened just before, there is no "stopped" message, this is a
hint to anyone looking that something was not right and the slapd is not the
same process
- people writing log processing scripts (incident response) know when it's
necessary to reset their state, again as it's a new process
Because of the above, it feels like a regression to me.
I guess we can just emit this info on logfile config handlers? This means
startups and logfile switches are still handled as they used to in syslog and
log rotation doesn't emit anything (making it easy and safe to just concatenate
files).
Yes, slapd logs its PID in most formats so restarts can be detected that way,
but that's considerably harder to search for.
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