Bug 349803

Summary:	net-p2p/transmission-2.12: default configuration and init files forbid use of syslog
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maxime de Roucy <maxime.deroucy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Peter Volkov (RETIRED) <pva>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	net-p2p
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maxime de Roucy 2010-12-26 17:31:23 UTC

in /usr/portage/net-p2p/transmission/files/transmission-daemon.initd.5
/usr/bin/transmission-daemon is always called with "--logfile" option so there is no other way to use syslog (syslog is used when --logfile isn't set) than modifying the init script.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-12-29 09:19:47 UTC

Thank you for report. What do you think about such change:

--- /usr/portage/net-p2p/transmission/files/transmission-daemon.initd.5	2010-11-11 19:06:58.000000000 +0300
+++ transmission-daemon.initd.6	2010-12-29 11:57:53.000000000 +0300
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
 
 	ebegin "Starting transmission daemon"
 	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile ${pidfile} ${SSD_OPTIONS} \
-		--exec /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -- --pid-file ${pidfile} --logfile ${logfile} \
+		--exec /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -- --pid-file ${pidfile} \
+		$(test ${logfile} != "none" && echo --logfile ${logfile}) \
 		${TRANSMISSION_OPTIONS}
 	eend $?
 }

Will it work for you if you set logfile=none in /etc/conf.d/transmission ?

Comment 2 Maxime de Roucy 2010-12-29 18:41:05 UTC

I think it's good ..
For my part I changed "none" to "syslog" with an explanation in the /etc/conf.d/transmission-daemon file.

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-12 01:49:21 UTC

Fixed in 2.21. 2.21 is hardmasked due to libevent-2, but I hope we are close to unmasking... Thank you for report!