Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23481
'wait for klogd to hit syslog' doesn't (minilog)
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:17:58 EDT
I was looking into why my syslog messages where all jumbled up when my computer starts, and I noticed that the 'sleep(1)' in minilog.c designed to let klogd get its entries in first doesn't seem to to the job anymore. The rc.syslog messages still get in before the kernel. (Maybe klogd slowed down?). Just thought I would let you know, as it works quite nicely in 6.2, and now it has a habit of getting a little mixed up. All three souces of message now get all mixed up - well, its not that bad, but it does happen. (see bug 23480) My system is RedHat 7 with many (including sysklogd, initscripts) RawHide packages and a 2.4.0-ac1 kernel.
Hm, it's really just a timing issue. Not something we can truly enforce ordering on (and, in any case, the kernel messages and the syslog messages are intermingled in timing, so unless we start having the kernel timestamp them and have syslogd sort them they won't be in order.) I'll change it to sleep(2), but that may not necessarily help.
Didn't particulary help, but thanks for your efforts. Another idea: Could rc.sysint dump dmesg into minilog, therefore getting it to the top of the pile? Anyway, there are much more important things to worry about than the prettyness (or otherwise) of logfiles.