Package: dsyslog
Version: 0.5.0
Severity: important
When you install dsyslog for the first time, you get this nasty:
Setting up dsyslog (0.5.0~bpo50+1) ...
Starting system logging daemon : dsyslogrm: cannot remove
`/var/run/dsyslog.pid': No such file or directory
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript dsyslog, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing dsyslog (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dsyslog
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Looking at /etc/init.d/dsyslog, I see in the start_server() that the first
thing it does is rm $PIDFILE which in the first run will of course not have
such a PID file, resulting in a return code of 1 and triggering the set -e,
which will cause the whole ball of wax to fail out.
start_server() {
rm $PIDFILE
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --background
--make-pidfile \
--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
errcode=$?
return $errcode
}
I suggest that this rm be turned into a rm -f, like so:
start_server() {
rm -f $PIDFILE
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --background
--make-pidfile \
--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
errcode=$?
return $errcode
}
micah
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dsyslog depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnutls26 2.6.5-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
Versions of packages dsyslog recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.7-3 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages dsyslog suggests:
pn dsyslog-module-gnutls <none> (no description available)
ii dsyslog-module-mysql 0.5.0 advanced modular syslog daemon - M
pn dsyslog-module-postgresql <none> (no description available)
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