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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:42:53 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7_=2F_Andrey_Chern?= =?KOI8-R?Q?ov?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970103163905.382B-100000@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199701030713.XAA04264@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> jkh         97/01/02 23:13:23
> 
>   Modified:    usr.sbin/syslogd  syslogd.c
>   Log:
>   Unlink LogName before attempting to open it.  Since we now have a lovely
>   bug in syslogd which causes it to die after random amounts of time (widely
>   reported), this at least allows the administrator to easily restart it
>   without wondering why it simply exits again each time.

You broke logging of messages which goes before socket open this way,
please back it out.
BTW, we definitely no need in such hackery, no fix is even better
that masking real bug because it allows to find right solution in
future and masking not allows to solve it at all.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/




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