From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: Error and status messages are written to file handle 2. Due to daemon(0,0) being called in the early stages of startup file handle 2 is /dev/null. Below is some strace output of a default configuration of nifd in operation when an Ethernet cable has been unplugged and plugged in again. As you can see the error messages are sent to /dev/null and no-where else. ioctl(8, SIOCGIFADDR, 0xfefa5360) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address) write(2, "[howl] couldn\'t get ip address f"..., 64) = 64 ioctl(8, SIOCGIFHWADDR, 0xfefa5360) = 0 ioctl(8, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xfefa5360) = 0 ioctl(8, SIOCGIFINDEX, {3, "sit0"}) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 9 ioctl(9, SIOCETHTOOL, 0xfefa52d0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) write(2, "[assert] error: 22 (Invalid argu"..., 128) = 128 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Observe that nifd logs nothing to syslog. Expected Results: The sw_debug() function should call syslog() by default. Additional info:
FC3 and FC4 are currently maintained by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. howl is currently obsolete and has been replaced by avahi in the still fully supported versions of Fedora Core, FC5 and FC6. Since this is not a security bug, it will not be fixed. avahi has a substantial amount of changes from howl, so please retest this bug against a newer install of Fedora Core if possible. If a similar bug is present in FC5 or FC6, please reopen the bug and change the component to avahi. Thanks!