Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76999
chat program produces incomplete logs
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:01:29 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: I'm using a "chat -v -s -S" command to capture chat's output to my own log file (ie. not syslog). Sometimes the log will be incomplete. It may be missing parts from the middle of the conversation or the entire log may be empty. When I looked at the 'chat' source I saw that it mixes I/O modes. It uses both "write(2,...)" and "fprintf(stderr,...)". I believe this is the cause of the logging problems. I patched my source to 'chat' such that it doesn't mix I/O methods. Since then, the logs have been complete. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. run logs of pppd sessions 2. 3. Additional info: I submitted a patch to the "linux-ppp" list on Apr 19, 2002. The subject line was "chat timestamp patch".
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now.