[PATCH] report messages via syslog

[Petr Lautrbach]

Hello,

attached patches add support for not only displaying error messages by echo but also log
via syslog.
This allows messages to be inspected also from logs e.g. after boot process.


There is a new function echo_log() in /etc/rc.d/init.d/function which takes 3 arguments -
syslog priority,
syslog tag and message.

Another two patches change network-scripts/ifup* and network-scripts/ifdown* to use this
function instead of simple
echo.

.error priority is used when scripts ends with exit 1 otherwise .info priority is used.


Regards,

Petr
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Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.

[Bill Nottingham]

Petr Lautrbach (plautrba(a)redhat.com) said: 
>  There is a new function echo_log() in /etc/rc.d/init.d/function which
> takes 3 arguments - syslog priority,
>  syslog tag and message. 
Why specify daemon. as the facility? It looks like the sort of thing that
really doesn't need to be an option.

Bill

[Petr Lautrbach]

On 07/28/2010 06:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Petr Lautrbach (plautrba(a)redhat.com) said:
> > There is a new function echo_log() in /etc/rc.d/init.d/function which takes 3
> arguments - syslog priority,
> > syslog tag and message.
>
>  Why specify daemon. as the facility? It looks like the sort of thing that
>  really doesn't need to be an option.
>  
The original intention was to enable usage of echo_log() also from other scripts but after
short investigation it seems
that there is no usage for this outside daemon. facility scope in initscripts.

Changed patches without facility as option are attached.

Regards,

Petr
-- 
Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.