Re: Problems with barf and non-file logs
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.freeswan.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "Hugh" == Hugh Daniel <[email protected]> writes: Hugh> This is an annoying problem, some asshole in Linux land has put a Hugh> named pipe as a file in /var/log! Ghods knows what reason the fool Hugh> might have had, but he sure never had to sysadmin a real Unix box... Hugh> So along comes me and the simple "ipsec barf" command that foolishly Hugh> expects files in /var/log and the egrep locks up on this fools named Hugh> pipe stuck in the wrong place (/var/log/popauth). Our code locks up Hugh> and gets blamed. Sigh, we should be more robust. Okay, barf.in, rev 1.83... Now does -r file -a -f file instead of -r file -a ! -d file. This may screw up with symlinks, but won't get hung up again. ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Finger me for keys iQCVAwUBPj9LRYqHRg3pndX9AQEX0gP/RI69vgs29WaADYHYCgoLxv4j3rRHuD+R /0t6BZ5H2ydbdm8W3Ig48RGK3NiycefTZY3q6aiGDiOilrRXkHucWyra0XF6bi7r A7AMkk6sQl1FzxOnmZSc6OVsdf1wSRZx8m+xjf5mvg6KE1U7rUTqXRJbtsx5NIJA zSsJfrFaD6c= =dFWF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----