Philip Hazel wrote:
| I've just tried this and it worked for me (only difference being a
| different file name). At least, it logged the start-up of the daemon in
| both places, which was all I checked.
OK - the daemon is syslogging its arguments at startup:
exim[11327]: 1999-11-11 13:26:26 3 args: exim -bd -q10m
but not the real startup message:
exim[11327]: 1999-11-11 13:26:26 exim 3.092 daemon started:
pid=11327, -q10m listening for SMTP on port 25
nor anything else. As far as I can see, the daemon exim closes all
descriptors, including the one used by syslog(), so nothing more ever gets
logged.
Adding a call to closelog() *before* closing all descriptors appears to
sort this, although I don't totally understand why.
Chris
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