On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:If we don't run in foreground, we close standard error as we daemonise, so it makes no sense to check if the controlling terminal is an interactive terminal or if --force-stderr was given, to decide if we want to log to standard error. Make --force-stderr depend on --foreground. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com>Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au>--- conf.c | 3 +++ passt.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c index 94b3ed6..dbdbb62 100644 --- a/conf.c +++ b/conf.c @@ -1693,6 +1693,9 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv) conf_ugid(runas, &uid, &gid); + if (!c->foreground && c->force_stderr) + die("Can't log to standard error if not running in foreground"); + if (logfile) { logfile_init(c->mode == MODE_PASTA ? "pasta" : "passt", logfile, logsize); diff --git a/passt.c b/passt.c index a5e2c5a..aa9648a 100644 --- a/passt.c +++ b/passt.c @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) if (isolate_prefork(&c)) die("Failed to sandbox process, exiting"); - if (!c.force_stderr && !isatty(fileno(stderr))) + if (!c.foreground || (!c.force_stderr && !isatty(fileno(stderr))))What's the rationale for the isatty() check in any case?__openlog(log_name, 0, LOG_DAEMON); if (!c.foreground)-- David Gibson (he or they) | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you, not the other way | around. http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson