Description of problem: yum-updatesd, when configured to generate syslog entries, does not generate the entries with the configured (or default) syslog identifier. In all cases, the syslog identifier is null. For example: Jun 24 12:57:06 huggy : 8 updates available It should rather be: Jun 24 12:57:06 huggy yum-updatesd: 8 updates available Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-updatesd-0.9-1.fc9.noarch Here is the command-line I used to test the settings: # /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --syslog --syslog-level=WARN --syslog-facility=DAEMON --syslog-ident=yum-updatesd --debug --check And here is my yum-updatesd.conf file: [main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 10800 # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) updaterefresh = 600 # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) emit_via = syslog # should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for # new updates dbus_listener = no # automatically install updates do_update = no # automatically download updates do_download = no # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = no How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf to generate syslog notifications 2. run yum-updatesd on a system that requires updates 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: From what I can tell, yum-updatesd is stumbling over the the YUM library, which re-initializes the syslog facility (see YumBase.doConfigSetup). Unless there is a syslog configuration in yum.conf, it gets reset to use a null syslog ident. There are a variety of fixes, but the one I came up with (please forgive me) is to re-initialize syslog immediately after the YUM library is initialized. Feel free to suggest a cleaner solution. See my patch: diff -u /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper /tmp/yum-updatesd-helper --- /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper 2007-12-17 20:19:44.000000000 -0800 +++ /tmp/yum-updatesd-helper 2009-06-24 13:01:17.421686194 -0700 @@ -347,17 +347,30 @@ self.options.smtpserver, self.options.sendmail)) if self.options.syslog: - self.emitters.append(SyslogUpdateEmitter(self.options.logfacility, - self.options.logident, - self.options.loglevel)) + self.syslog_emitter = SyslogUpdateEmitter(self.options.logfacility, + self.options.logident, + self.options.loglevel) + self.emitters.append(self.syslog_emitter) if self.options.debug: self.emitters.append(StderrUpdateEmitter()) self.updateInfo = [] + def doSetupSyslog(self): + """Initialize or re-initialize the syslog facility. + + Note that the YUM library re-initializes syslog. + """ + if self.options.syslog: + syslog.openlog(self.options.logident, + 0, + self.syslog_emitter._facilityMap(self.options.logfacility)) + def doSetup(self): try: self.doConfigSetup(fn=self.options.config) + self.doSetupSyslog() except Exception, e: + self.doSetupSyslog() syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_WARNING, "error initializing: %s" % e)
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