Package: smokeping Version: 2.0.9-1 Severity: wishlist After an upgrade from sarge I noted smokeping was not running, even after manual restart. Further investigation revealed that the problem is actually a problem with a dying syslog-ng (#384021). However, smokeping dies if it cannot write to /dev/log which happens if there's no syslog daemon running.
| 1550 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED
(Connection refused)
| 1550 write(2, "no connection to syslog available\n\t- unix dgram connect:
Connection refused at /usr/share/perl5/smokeping/Smokeping.pm line 2583\n",
129) = 129
| 1550 close(4) = 0
| 1550 exit_group(111) = ?
And: This message is not visible.
Looking into the sources I find this problem is not specific for
smokeping, it's perl's syslog call. Hence just a wish: Please place a
warning in the manual page or the default config file that smokeping
requires a running syslog daemon for operation.
Alternatively, catching that error and continue operation was a nice
thing to have.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages smokeping depends on:
ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-14 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii libnet-perl 1:1.19-3 Implementation of Internet protoco
ii librrds-perl 1.2.11-0.6 Time-series data storage and displ
ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.08-1 Perl support for accessing SNMP-aw
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules [libnet-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Core Perl modules
ii postfix [mail-transport 2.3.3-1 A high-performance mail transport
ii speedy-cgi-perl 2.22-3 speed up perl scripts by making th
Versions of packages smokeping recommends:
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.55-4.1 traditional model for Apache2
ii dnsutils 1:9.3.2-P1-2 Clients provided with BIND
pn libsocket6-perl <none> (no description available)
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