When multipathd commands are run, errors should be printed to stderr, instead of syslog. Also, when the multipath is run and calls device-mapper, device-mapper should log to stderr instead of stdout, just like multipath does now. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 8 ++++---- multipathd/main.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c index 8136d15..0433b49 100644 --- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c +++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c @@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ dm_write_log (int level, const char *file, int line, const char *f, ...) strftime(buff, sizeof(buff), "%b %d %H:%M:%S", tb); buff[sizeof(buff)-1] = '\0'; - fprintf(stdout, "%s | ", buff); + fprintf(stderr, "%s | ", buff); } - fprintf(stdout, "libdevmapper: %s(%i): ", file, line); - vfprintf(stdout, f, ap); - fprintf(stdout, "\n"); + fprintf(stderr, "libdevmapper: %s(%i): ", file, line); + vfprintf(stderr, f, ap); + fprintf(stderr, "\n"); } else { condlog(level, "libdevmapper: %s(%i): ", file, line); log_safe(level + 3, f, ap); diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c index af33239..5f0193b 100644 --- a/multipathd/main.c +++ b/multipathd/main.c @@ -2984,6 +2984,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) logsink = -1; break; case 'k': + logsink = 0; conf = load_config(DEFAULT_CONFIGFILE); if (!conf) exit(1); @@ -3013,6 +3014,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) char * s = cmd; char * c = s; + logsink = 0; conf = load_config(DEFAULT_CONFIGFILE); if (!conf) exit(1); -- 2.7.4 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel