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| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/syslogd.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c index 38ea3d7ff..f624eb7f6 100644 --- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c +++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c @@ -301,17 +301,23 @@ static void log_locally(time_t now, char *msg) } #endif if (G.logFD >= 0) { + /* Reopen log file every second. This allows admin + * to delete the file and not worry about restarting us. + * This costs almost nothing since it happens + * _at most_ once a second. + */ if (!now) now = time(NULL); if (G.last_log_time != now) { - G.last_log_time = now; /* reopen log file every second */ + G.last_log_time = now; close(G.logFD); goto reopen; } } else { reopen: - G.logFD = device_open(G.logFilePath, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT - | O_NOCTTY | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK); + G.logFD = open(G.logFilePath, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT + | O_NOCTTY | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK, + 0666); if (G.logFD < 0) { /* cannot open logfile? - print to /dev/console then */ int fd = device_open(DEV_CONSOLE, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK); |