On Wednesday 11 February 2004 21:41 CET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> added reply to FIXME
Replying on-list :)
> # The next call is required to actually open the socket.
> # FIXME: mss: wouldn't a openlog('spamd', 'cons,pid,ndelay',
> $log_facility); be better?
> # jm: no, it's unportable. if I recall correctly some perls will die
> syslog('debug', "%s", "spamd starting");
Are you really sure? The whole syslog() code looks like black magic to me
and spamd does really weird things with metalog, I guess because of the
missing $ident.
Currently we open the syslog via a syslog() call but do an openlog() on each
logmsg() call. That looks more than weird.
And 'perldoc Sys::Syslog' doesn't say anything about known bugs like this,
it just has a big fat sentence "You should use openlog() before calling
syslog()."
Cheers,
Malte
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