| Summary: | app-misc/lirc-0.6.6 ebuild fails to write a logfile | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | dweazle <gentoo-bugs> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Matt Keadle <mkeadle> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
After upgrading from 0.6.5 to 0.6.6: * Starting lircd... lircd 0.6.6: could not open logfile lircd 0.6.6: No such file or directory [ !! ] afaik it tries to write it's logfile in /var/log/lircd (according to the manpage ), which exists and has no weird permissions (0.6.5 logged fine to this file, it's chmod 644). the online documentation on lirc.org doesn't really give much info on this. it says you can log through syslog, but i can't find anywhere how to configure lirc/syslog to use this feature (local0-7? lirc.*?) :/ a second little remark: the documentation isn't installed either, it might be convienient to put the docs in /usr/doc/lirc 3rd: the new lirc tries to put it's pid-file in /var/lib/run, which is a weird location imho. the ebuild script doesn't create this dir, but i think the pid file should be rather located in /var/run 4rd and final note (I think this is more a lirc problem): you can't configure your port/driver anywhere except in the init.d script, which is ofcourse not a very elegant solution. (I use "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd -- -H irman -d /dev/tts/2" in my /etc/init.d/lircd script) I hope these thingies can be fixed sometime :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: