On Tuesday 07 April 2015, Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:10:57AM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote: > > So how could we skip logger tests safely if /dev/log does not work? > > Would be enough to test by > > socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/dev/log > > connect to the socket? Well, using socat we can also use another socat listening socket instead of /dev/log at all. BTW we wouldn't even need --stderr and --no-act to check the written data. I have done this in my github clone, branch "tests-logger" https://github.com/rudimeier/util-linux/commits/tests-logger (Not ready for merge yet.) cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html