For me, more often than not, the backgrounded syslogd daemon is not
yet ready to process log messages before other things (such as named)
want to log a heap of them. It seems that it's the O_SYNC writes of
the stuff coming in from /dev/klog that's the slowdown.
Anyway, instead of using the libc daemon, roll a modified version. This
one has a timeout. The child will wait for either the timeout to expire
or the child process to signal it to let it know that it's "ready" and
the /dev/log socket is set up and active, so it's safe to continue the
boot. It adds a small fraction of a second pause to the boot time, but on
the other hand the overall boot time is *quicker* since the disk is not
being thrashed while the log messages are getting written out synchronously
one by one while other daemons are loading in parallel.
The timeout is in case the child segfaults or something before becoming
fully operational.
with theirs (change the -I option to -s (but leave -I in for backwards compat.)
Also eliminate an make sane some magic numbers, and fix a small bug where we'd
send to an unopened socket.
Reviewed by: wollman
Obtained from: NetBSD
`interesting' feature of syslogd turned up. It calls getbootfile() for each
log entry. Since the kernel makefile now changes kern.bootfile when doing
a 'make install', it's quite startling to see the syslog lines change.
This change makes it call getbootfile() once at startup and cache it,
saving a syscall per loop, and keeping something a little more asthetically
pleasing in /var/log/messages...
Document `-d' and `-I'. Add a BUGS section noting that
logging from UDP is an unauthenticated remote disk-filling service,
and probably should be disabled by default in the absence of some sort
of authentication.
so that it only unlinks the file if syslogd knows it created it.
If the path specified for the socket already exists then syslogd
will now exit with an "address already in use" error which is more
sensible than blindly unlinking the existing filename. This stops
syslogd -d foo/bar from unlinking foo/bar if it's a real file.
