Bug 18133

Summary:	broken logging
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	mgetty	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2000-10-02 20:20:30 UTC

mgetty-1.1.22-1 has a bad logging-behavior because it outputs at
successful operations (loglevel L_MESG) the errno-string. An example
output is

| Sep 27 22:53:14 feldi mgetty[11711]: waiting...: No such file or
directory

The reason lies in mgetty-1.1.22-excl.patch removing the parts of logfile.c
which are handling harmless messages. Now 

| syslog( level == L_FATAL? LOG_ALERT: LOG_ERR, "%s: %m", ws );

will be called also if level is L_MESG only.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-02 22:27:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17420 ***