[Xorp-users] No logging when using xorp_rtrmgr

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin at icir.org
Wed Aug 29 02:30:39 PDT 2007


> > The XORP log messages are output to stdout/stderr when you start the
> > xorp_rtrmgr.
> > XORP doesn't write any syslog messages (yet), which is one of the
> > shortcomings of the log meccanism that needs to be addressed in the
> > future.
> 
> After building/testing xorp 1.5 I think we are going to work around this (in
> Debian) by using the 'daemon' program (http://www.libslack.org/daemon/)
> this program can send stdout/stderr of programs it runs to either a logfile
> or syslog and it also takes care of putting it into background, generating
> its pidfile, etc.
> 
> Other Linux and *BSD distributions might have a similar program to handle
> that so it's not that much of an issue, IMHO. 
> 
> Just for reference, attached is the current status of the init.d script I'm
> working at for the Debian package.

Thank you for the info and the script. The most recent version of
the script from Bugzilla entry #119, Comment #9
(http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119) is committed to CVS:

Revision  Changes    Path
1.1       +208 -0    xorp/contrib/init_scripts/debian/xorp (new)

Regards,
Pavlin



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