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title="NEW --- - syslog()-calls just before a program exit are not be recorded in the journal DB"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69934">69934</a>
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<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>syslog()-calls just before a program exit are not be recorded in the journal DB
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<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>major
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>martin@thesofty.de
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<td>systemd
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<pre>When I have a statement like this in a C program
if (some error) {
syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER,"some error description"\n);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
the error description will not be found in the journal DB.
Even a closelog()-call before exit() doesn't help.
The only way to get the description recorded is a code snippet like this:
if (some error) {
syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER,"some error description"\n);
sleep(1);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
When using syslog-ng instead
if (some error) {
syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER,"some error description"\n);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
records the error message without any problems in /var/log/user.log
I'm using
Arch Linux x86-64
Kernel 3.11.1-1
Systemd 207</pre>
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