No problem -- the mailing list processor held it due to size constrainst (and
I rejected it now). The size restriction was actually the prime issue why I
requested it to go to my private mail. So: nothing bad has happened ;)

I'll try to look at the log asap and let you know what I find.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of George Bonser
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:10 AM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Problem with 4.6.2 TCP binds after UID non-root.
> 
> Oops, sorry, I did not mean to send that attachment to the list.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards
> > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:18 PM
> > To: rsyslog-users
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Problem with 4.6.2 TCP binds after UID
> non-root.
> >
> > The privilege drop code is still a hack. It needs proper engineering
> > (as
> > stated in the doc). So it could very well be a race in this regard.
> On
> > the
> > other hand, it does not look so. Could you send me complete debug
> logs
> > to my
> > private email address both with and without privilege drop inside
> your
> > config. Maybe it is a simple thing, then I could fix it without the
> > large
> > effort really required.
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of George Bonser
> > > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:24 AM
> > > To: rsyslog-users
> > > Subject: [rsyslog] Problem with 4.6.2 TCP binds after UID non-root.
> > >
> > > Can't bind to TCP socket.  The tcp module loads but I noticed that
> it
> > > only tries to bind the socket AFTER it has dropped is privs so it
> can
> > > not bind to a socket less than 1024.  UDP bind works as that seems
> to
> > > bind immediately after module load while the prog is still running
> as
> > > root. If I set a tcp port >1024, it works.  Could this be a race
> > > between
> > > two threads where a different thread is setting the UID/GID and a
> > > different one is binding the connections and the UID gets changed
> > > before
> > > the binding thread has a chance to get the socket?
> > >
> > > Modules being loaded:
> > >
> > > 9572.648625421:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$ModLoad imudp'
> > > 9572.648636228:7f07c0a216f0: Requested to load module 'imudp'
> > > 9572.648645873:7f07c0a216f0: loading module
> > '/usr/lib/rsyslog/imudp.so'
> > > 9572.648713628:7f07c0a216f0: source file imudp.c requested
> reference
> > > for
> > > module 'lmnet', reference count now 4
> > > 9572.648734955:7f07c0a216f0: module of type 0 being loaded.
> > > 9572.648747037:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$UDPServerRun 514'
> > > 9572.648759295:7f07c0a216f0: Trying to open syslog UDP ports at
> > *:514.
> > > 9572.648845036:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$ModLoad imtcp'
> > > 9572.648859626:7f07c0a216f0: Requested to load module 'imtcp'
> > > 9572.648869611:7f07c0a216f0: loading module
> > '/usr/lib/rsyslog/imtcp.so'
> > > 9572.648938665:7f07c0a216f0: source file imtcp.c requested
> reference
> > > for
> > > module 'lmnet', reference count now 5
> > > 9572.648953892:7f07c0a216f0: caller requested object 'netstrm', not
> > > found (iRet -3003)
> > > 9572.648968610:7f07c0a216f0: Requested to load module 'lmnetstrms'
> > > 9572.648979310:7f07c0a216f0: loading module
> > > '/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmnetstrms.so'
> > > 9572.649053366:7f07c0a216f0: module of type 2 being loaded.
> > > 9572.649068131:7f07c0a216f0: source file imtcp.c requested
> reference
> > > for
> > > module 'lmnetstrms', reference count now 1
> > > 9572.649079163:7f07c0a216f0: caller requested object 'tcps_sess',
> not
> > > found (iRet -3003)
> > > 9572.649095086:7f07c0a216f0: Requested to load module 'lmtcpsrv'
> > > 9572.649105485:7f07c0a216f0: loading module
> > > '/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmtcpsrv.so'
> > > 9572.649188177:7f07c0a216f0: source file tcps_sess.c requested
> > > reference
> > > for module 'lmnetstrms', reference count now 2
> > > 9572.649206712:7f07c0a216f0: source file tcpsrv.c requested
> reference
> > > for module 'lmnet', reference count now 6
> > > 9572.649217297:7f07c0a216f0: source file tcpsrv.c requested
> reference
> > > for module 'lmnetstrms', reference count now 3
> > > 9572.649231362:7f07c0a216f0: module of type 2 being loaded.
> > > 9572.649241801:7f07c0a216f0: source file imtcp.c requested
> reference
> > > for
> > > module 'lmtcpsrv', reference count now 1
> > > 9572.649252009:7f07c0a216f0: source file imtcp.c requested
> reference
> > > for
> > > module 'lmtcpsrv', reference count now 2
> > > 9572.649287366:7f07c0a216f0: module of type 0 being loaded.
> > > 9572.649299663:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$InputTCPServerRun 514'
> > > 9572.649321373:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$ActionFileDefaultTemplate
> > > RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat'
> > > 9572.649334345:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$RepeatedMsgReduction on'
> > > 9572.649382777:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$FileOwner syslog'
> > > 9572.649703828:7f07c0a216f0: uid 101 obtained for user 'syslog'
> > > 9572.649720763:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$FileGroup adm'
> > > 9572.649790575:7f07c0a216f0: gid 4 obtained for group 'adm'
> > > 9572.649805222:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$FileCreateMode 0640'
> > > 9572.649816505:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$DirCreateMode 0755'
> > > 9572.649827020:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$Umask 0022'
> > > 9572.649840237:7f07c0a216f0: umask set to 0022.
> > > 9572.649850064:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$PrivDropToUser syslog'
> > > 9572.649885709:7f07c0a216f0: uid 101 obtained for user 'syslog'
> > > 9572.649898391:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$PrivDropToGroup syslog'
> > > 9572.649934688:7f07c0a216f0: gid 103 obtained for group 'syslog'
> > > 9572.649948278:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: '$IncludeConfig
> > > /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf'
> > > 9572.650017305:7f07c0a216f0: requested to include config file
> > > '/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf'
> > > 9572.650045382:7f07c0a216f0: cfline: 'auth,authpriv.*
> > > /var/log/auth.log'
> > >
> > > GID and UID being changed:
> > >
> > > 9572.671888467:7f07be402910: doWrite, pData->pStrm 0x1e11d60,
> lenBuf
> > 78
> > > 9572.671902407:7f07c0a216f0: logmsg: flags 1, from 'trebuchet', msg
> > > rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
> > > 9572.671920644:7f07c0a216f0: Message has legacy syslog format.
> > > 9572.671933956:7f07be402910: testing filter, f_pmask 1
> > > 9572.671947526:7f07be402910: testing filter, f_pmask 240
> > > 9572.671957623:7f07be402910: Called action, logging to builtin-pipe
> > > 9572.671969801:7f07be402910: extend buf to at least 16, done 128
> > > 9572.671982061:7f07be402910:  (/dev/xconsole)
> > > 9572.671999956:7f07c0a216f0: main Q: entry added, size now 2
> entries
> > > 9572.672025520:7f07c0a216f0: wtpAdviseMaxWorkers signals busy
> > > 9572.672041633:7f07c0a216f0: main Q: EnqueueMsg advised worker
> start
> > > 9572.672059720:7f07be402910: Action requested to be suspended, done
> > > that.
> > > 9572.672085037:7f07be402910: main Q: entry deleted, state 0, size
> now
> > 1
> > > entries
> > > 9572.672099142:7f07c0a216f0: setuid(101): 0
> > > 9572.672122289:7f07be402910: testing filter, f_pmask 0
> > > 9572.672136161:7f07be402910: testing filter, f_pmask 255
> > > 9572.672147659:7f07be402910: Called action, logging to builtin-file
> > > 9572.672162158:7f07c0a216f0: logmsg: flags 1, from 'trebuchet', msg
> > > rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
> > > 9572.672179992:7f07c0a216f0: Message has legacy syslog format.
> > > 9572.672192329:7f07be402910: extend buf to at least 138, done 256
> > > 9572.672200766:7f07be402910: file to log to: /var/log/syslog
> > >
> > > UDP socket bind succeeded but TCP bind fails:
> > >
> > > 9572.672546363:7f07c0a216f0: initialization completed,
> transitioning
> > to
> > > regular run mode
> > > 9572.672557359:7f07bc3fe910: Listening on UDP syslogd socket 4
> > > (IPv4/port 514).
> > > 9572.672576606:7f07bc3fe910: --------imUDP calling select, active
> > file
> > > descriptors (max 4): 4
> > > 9572.672594858:7f07bdc01910: --------imuxsock calling select,
> active
> > > file descriptors (max 5): 3 5
> > > 9572.672630154:7f07bd400910: wtpAdviseMaxWorkers signals busy
> > > 9572.672646478:7f07bbbfd910: caller requested object 'nsd_ptcp',
> not
> > > found (iRet -3003)
> > > 9572.672663716:7f07bbbfd910: Requested to load module 'lmnsd_ptcp'
> > > 9572.672671184:7f07bbbfd910: loading module
> > > '/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmnsd_ptcp.so'
> > > 9572.672745761:7f07bbbfd910: source file nsd_ptcp.c requested
> > reference
> > > for module 'lmnetstrms', reference count now 4
> > > 9572.672757197:7f07bbbfd910: module of type 2 being loaded.
> > > 9572.672763826:7f07bbbfd910: source file netstrms.c requested
> > reference
> > > for module 'lmnsd_ptcp', reference count now 1
> > > 9572.672770522:7f07bbbfd910: creating tcp listen socket on port 514
> > > 9572.672803781:7f07bbbfd910: error 13 while binding tcp socketWe
> > could
> > > initialize 0 TCP listen sockets out of 1 we recei
> > > ved - this may or may not be an error indication.
> > > 9572.672824933:7f07bbbfd910: No TCP listen sockets could
> successfully
> > > be
> > > initializedCalled LogError, msg: Could not crea
> > > te tcp listener, ignoring port 514.
> > > 9572.672844597:7f07bbbfd910: logmsg: flags 1, from 'trebuchet', msg
> > > Could not create tcp listener, ignoring port 514. [t
> > > ry http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2077 ]
> > >
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