Comment 15 for bug 407862
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| Michael Terry (mterry) wrote Re: [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs | #15 |
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Guh, I thought it was safe to revert to how debian did it (sending a HUP) in the latest upload because I noticed that rsyslog forces a lightweight HUP restart when privileges are dropped. It seemed to work for me, but I didn't do extensive testing.
OK, so if the realization is that lightweight restarting is just broken with privilege dropping, then that's good to know. We just go back to the previous init reloading and your original report would just be 'WONT FIX' since we don't support manual HUPing?
However, it surprises me that lightweight restart would be broken. As I said, the code specifically chooses lightweight restarts when privileges are dropped. I would think that means it would be safe.
So Neil, with your original patch for 4.2.0-1ubuntu2, things weren't working? I had tested them, but I think I only tested kernel messages, which wouldn't be affected by the 'open as root, drop priv' issue since the kernel messages are readable by the rsyslog user.