Re: Problems with barf and non-file logs
Henry Spencer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.freeswan.devel |
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Hugh Daniel wrote:
> This is an annoying problem, some asshole in Linux land has put a
> named pipe as a file in /var/log! Ghods knows what reason the fool
> might have had, but he sure never had to sysadmin a real Unix box...
Eesh. Straightforward enough for barf to defend against, but it never
occurred to me that it would have to...
> but we do need to check files to be sure they are not dirs or pipes
> it seems.
Directories, it copes with, or did when the code left my hands (and
presumably still does).
Henry Spencer
[email protected]