On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Chris Edwards wrote:
> 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.
Aha! I think I do. The answer is that you have "log_arguments" set,
which causes Exim to start logging (i.e. open syslog) before this
descriptor-closing that happens in the daemon. In my test I didn't have
log_arguments set. Closing syslog before closing the descriptors
presumably allows it to reopen then next time it logs something.
I'll install this closelog() call. Thanks for the debugging.
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