Bug 95927 – ebuild and init script for specter, a userspace logging daemon

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Lawson 2005-06-12 22:12:06 UTC]

I've made an ebuild and an initscript for specter, a user space logging daemon
similar to ulogd, but more flexible.

I'll attach the ebuild and init script.

I've tested this on x86

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. NA

[Comment 1 Daniel Lawson 2005-06-12 22:13:03 UTC]

Created attachment 61131 [details]
init script for specter

[Comment 2 Daniel Lawson 2005-06-12 22:13:33 UTC]

Created attachment 61132 [details]
ebuild for specter


ebuild for app-admin/specter

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-30 04:10:25 UTC]

The ebuild is missing a header...

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3

[Comment 4 Daniel Lawson 2005-07-18 19:43:43 UTC]

Created attachment 63745 [details]
Ebuild for specter 1.4

added the header as per the ebuild guild.

Should this be running as a user rather than root? I didn't see anything
particularly obvious in the gentoo developer notes. Need to check how specter
handles dropping privs wrt logfile open.

[Comment 5 Daniel Lawson 2005-07-18 19:44:43 UTC]

Created attachment 63746 [details]
init script for specter

make 'restart' use svc_stop / svc_start

[Comment 6 Preston Crow 2012-01-31 21:51:47 UTC]

Created attachment 300567 [details]
updated ebuild

I updated the ebuild for version 1.5, and included a dependency to get sgml2html and sgml2txt so that it would compile.  I also updated the postgres dependency.

[Comment 7 Preston Crow 2012-01-31 21:54:58 UTC]

I ran into this because I was looking for a way of running an arbitrary script triggered by a rule in iptables.  Is there a better program for this purpose?  I would think that since this bug has been here for almost seven years, most people have found other ways of doing what this program does.