I've been asking around, and no one seems to have any idea what I'm talking about, so I think I'm encountering a bug. I enabled PAM debug messages because I'm trying to track down an auth problem with netatalk. I found that none of the messages were going to /var/log/messages. As far as I can tell, I have syslog set up right. As far as I am able to surmise, when you start a daemon wtih start-stop-daemon and you have enabled "use logger", then stdout and stderr should be automatically logged. This doesn't appear to be happening. When I restart a PAM-using daemon, my terminal fills with the sorts of messages I'm looking for, but then they stop and don't get logged anywhere. I had to manually pipe the output to a file by editing the script in /etc/init.d. Sorry if I'm way off base, but the docs on this don't seem to be very complete. Also, someone else has encountered this and also had to make the manual hack. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-507085.html Reproducible: Always
Please paste your `emerge --info sys-apps/openrc' output in a comment.
Portage 2.1.9.35 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:23 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1, 3.1.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/re vdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=2" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews .com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="--jobs=3 --load-average=7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 aspell autotrace bash-completion berkdb bidi bonjour bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cli composite cracklib crypt ctype cups curl cxx dbus device-mapper dri dts dvd dvdr encode e xif extras fbcon ffmpeg fftw filter flac fontconfig fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm git glib gmm gnutls gpm graphviz gs httpd iconv imagemagick ipp ipv6 ithreads jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kpathsea kvm lame lapack largefil e latex lcms ldap live lm_sensors lzma mad matroska mdnsresponder-compat mjpeg mkl mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl openmp openssl pam pcre pdf perl php plasm a plotutils png ppds pppd python qemu qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reports rss ruby samba sasl secure-delete semantic-desktop session smp spl sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream subversion svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff tk tordns tordnsi truetype unicode utempter vcd vlm vnc vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw mu lti null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache c gi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_a lias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104 v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TA RGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq s teal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/openrc-0.7.0 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) ncurses pam unicode -debug"
ssd does not redirect stdout/stderr by default by design. it does provide --stdout/--stderr options to redirect things, but it doesnt send them to the syslog. this is expected behavior. if you want netatalk logging via syslog, then that is something to change in netatalk itself.