Andreas Krey <a.krey@xxxxxx> writes:
> Some people run inetds that collect stderr of the spawned programs.
> Give them 'git-daemon --inetd --no-syslog' to keep error output
> on stderr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Krey <a.krey@xxxxxx>
> ---
Are there examples of other daemon programs outside Git that have
this particular support to help such inetd implementations?
I would like to know how widely this kind of workaround is done, and
also what they call the option, as a quick sanity check.
Thanks.
> Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 4 ++++
> daemon.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
> index 223f731..007d3fc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
> @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ OPTIONS
> Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
> --verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
>
> +--no-syslog::
> + Disable the implicit --syslog of --inetd and --deatch, thus keeping
> + error output on stderr.
> +
> --user-path::
> --user-path=<path>::
> Allow {tilde}user notation to be used in requests. When
> diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
> index 6aeddcb..2f5d5bf 100644
> --- a/daemon.c
> +++ b/daemon.c
> @@ -1196,7 +1196,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> }
> if (!strcmp(arg, "--inetd")) {
> inetd_mode = 1;
> - log_syslog = 1;
> continue;
> }
> if (!strcmp(arg, "--verbose")) {
> @@ -1207,6 +1206,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> log_syslog = 1;
> continue;
> }
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-syslog")) {
> + log_syslog = -1;
> + continue;
> + }
> if (!strcmp(arg, "--export-all")) {
> export_all_trees = 1;
> continue;
> @@ -1263,7 +1266,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> }
> if (!strcmp(arg, "--detach")) {
> detach = 1;
> - log_syslog = 1;
> continue;
> }
> if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--user=")) {
> @@ -1309,6 +1311,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> usage(daemon_usage);
> }
>
> + if ((inetd_mode || detach) && log_syslog == 0)
> + log_syslog = 1;
> +
> + if (log_syslog == -1)
> + log_syslog = 0;
> +
> if (log_syslog) {
> openlog("git-daemon", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
> set_die_routine(daemon_die);
> @@ -1337,7 +1345,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> die("base-path '%s' does not exist or is not a directory",
> base_path);
>
> - if (inetd_mode) {
> + if (inetd_mode && log_syslog) {
> if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr))
> die_errno("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null");
> }
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