On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 09:40:28PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> 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@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@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 0ba208d..72c83ad 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);

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