Re: syslogd can write to "unterminated" fifo

From: Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 22:37:49 CEST

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* Artur R. Czechowski (arturcz@hell.pl) [030729 22:05]:
> filled, writing is stopped (due to blocking mode of writing). If you are afraid
> of locking syslogd (see also 4.) just use |/dev/tty* in syslog instead of
> /dev/tty*.

Sorry, but this has two negative impacts:
1. tty becomes the controlling terminal (see #108653)
2. Also files can get full, and syslogd should never, never get stuck,
because this blocks e.g. root logins needed to fix this problem.

Perhaps you can tell me what the disadvantage of my fix would be.

Cheers,
Andi

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