Source: mldonkey-server
Version: 3.1.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
See the following upstream bugs :
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?31021
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37003
MLDonkey outputs startup errors to stderr, before opening the logfile.
Debian init script starts mlnet via start-stop-daemon, effectively
discarding all stderr output. As a result any startup errors leave the
user guessing what was the reason of the failure without any traces..
AFAIK other distros redirect mldonkey output to the log, and this
problem is avoided. See the proposed patch (lightly tested) :
diff --git a/debian/mldonkey-server.init b/debian/mldonkey-server.init
index c5f8901..c190f06 100644
--- a/debian/mldonkey-server.init
+++ b/debian/mldonkey-server.init
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ case "$1" in
WRAPPER_OPTIONS="$WRAPPER_OPTIONS --user $USER"
start-stop-daemon --start $WRAPPER_OPTIONS \
- --pidfile $PIDFILE --background --exec $EXEC \
- -- -log_file $SERVERLOG -pid $PIDDIR 2>&1
+ --pidfile $PIDFILE --background --no-close --exec $EXEC \
+ -- -log_file $SERVERLOG -pid $PIDDIR >>$SERVERLOG 2>&1
StartErrorCheck
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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