If a log file is configured, we would otherwise open a connection to the system logger (if any), print any message that we might have before we initialise the log file, and then keep that connection around for no particular reason. Call __openlog() as an alternative to the log file setup, instead. This way, we might skip printing some messages during the initialisation phase, but they're probably not really valuable to have in a system log, and we're going to print them to standard error anyway. Suggested-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> --- conf.c | 9 +++++---- passt.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c index 09bf6dd..5a4f559 100644 --- a/conf.c +++ b/conf.c @@ -1220,6 +1220,7 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv) {"no-copy-addrs", no_argument, NULL, 19 }, { 0 }, }; + const char *logname = (c->mode == MODE_PASTA) ? "pasta" : "passt"; char userns[PATH_MAX] = { 0 }, netns[PATH_MAX] = { 0 }; bool copy_addrs_opt = false, copy_routes_opt = false; struct in6_addr *dns6 = c->ip6.dns, dns6_tmp; @@ -1680,10 +1681,10 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv) conf_ugid(runas, &uid, &gid); - if (logfile) { - logfile_init(c->mode == MODE_PASTA ? "pasta" : "passt", - logfile, logsize); - } + if (logfile) + logfile_init(logname, logfile, logsize); + else + __openlog(logname, 0, LOG_DAEMON); if (c->debug) __setlogmask(LOG_UPTO(LOG_DEBUG)); diff --git a/passt.c b/passt.c index 13f3eb6..e4d45da 100644 --- a/passt.c +++ b/passt.c @@ -224,8 +224,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) strncpy(argv0, argv[0], PATH_MAX - 1); name = basename(argv0); if (strstr(name, "pasta")) { - __openlog("pasta", 0, LOG_DAEMON); - sa.sa_handler = pasta_child_handler; if (sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL)) die_perror("Couldn't install signal handlers"); @@ -235,8 +233,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) c.mode = MODE_PASTA; } else if (strstr(name, "passt")) { - __openlog("passt", 0, LOG_DAEMON); - c.mode = MODE_PASST; } else { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); -- 2.43.0