[rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released

[Michael Biebl]

2010/1/17 Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/17 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
>>> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl
>>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:57 PM
>>> To: rsyslog-users
>>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released
>>>
>>> 2010/1/15 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>:
>>> > Michael,
>>> >
>>> > Fix now in git, links at the bug tracker:
>>> >
>>> > http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169
>>> >
>>> > Please let me know if it works for you (the patch is a bit trickier
>>> than it
>>> > looks, so confirmations would be good).
>>>
>>> I applied 5b4e06fc28ef217e9ca26611e11afd974bdd1a4a on top of 5.3.6.
>>> But now I'm getting a crash when rsyslog encounters the xconsole pipe
>>> config.
>>
>> I am a bit puzzled, but will try to reproduce that on my Debian box. I assume
>> stock Debian config?
>
> Yes. As said, I just downloaded the 5.3.6 tarball applied the
> 5b4e06fc28ef217e9ca26611e11afd974bdd1a4a patch on top of it and then
> got the crash. I use the default rsyslog.conf from the official debian
> package.

As an additonal hint: If I start xconsole (a process reading from
/dev/xconsole) before I start rsyslogd, then the crash does not occur.



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