Hi, Currently, hostapd does not log any messages generated during startup to syslog. This is because these startup messages are logged using wpa_printf, which currently only writes to stdout, and is not configurable. logger_syslog and logger_syslog_level do not apply to wpa_printf. To capture these messages through syslog, sysadmins will need to run hostapd as `stdbuf -oL hostapd | logger -t ...` or similar. This seems a suboptimal solution for a daemon like hostapd. Would it be possible to add something similar to the `-s` flag of wpa_supplicant to hostapd? The flag should simply trigger a call to wpa_debug_open_syslog and forward anything logged by wpa_printf to syslog. Alternatively, make logger_syslog control the output of wpa_printf as well, which would make it more consistent. See https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/20623 for a related OpenWrt bug report. -- Yichen Zhao _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
