John Timmers:
> I've just installed bash_2.0-2 and sysklogd_1.3-14 among other things
> (but these are relevant to the question) and generally the bootup
> sequence hangs for 10 seconds, just after syslogd is started, and just
> before klogd starts. There are no error messages in any of the logs,
> and there is no abnormal amount of CPU usage by syslogd when it runs, so
> I don't think that there's anything wrong with the daemon, maybe
> something in the /etc/init.d/syslogd script that might be causing the
> slight interruption. Has anyone else noticed this, and is it documented
> somewhere that I might read something about it? I have everything else
> set up properly (I'm almost sure) as there are not other errors or
> hiccups occuring elsewhere. Can anyone shed any light on this situation
> for me ?
I'm noticing it too. It's in fact the syslogd program that is delaing for 10
seconds. I see this in the sysklogd changelog:
* Modified syslogd.c to not kill itself which confuses bash 2.0
I also looked in the source, and saw:
if (fork())
{
/* We try to wait the end of initialization */
sleep(10);
exit(0);
}
This seems quite a primitive way to handle this, but I'm sure the author is
aware of it, so I'm not going to report this as a bug.
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