On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 10:26:11 +0800 Qingfang Deng wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 23:45:38 +0800 Qingfang Deng wrote: > [...] > > > > > > It looks like pppoe-server fails to start. You may check the syslog to > > > see what's going on. > > > > Hm, we don't capture syslog automatically :S We capture stdout and > > stderr > > > > I'm not even sure there's something listening on syslog in virtme-ng > > Is it possible to make the daemon log to stdout or a file and dump > > that file to stdout on failure? Even if we fix the current issue > > it will be quite inconvenient if we have to go into syslog every time > > the test is failing. The test output should provide enough info to > > debug failures. > > Add Cc: Dianne > > I checked the man page of pppoe-server and did not find such option. > We can instead start our own listener and redirect the syslog to a > file or stdout: > > socat -u UNIX-RECV:/dev/log,ignoreeof STDOUT &
That should work for vng, I confirmed it doesn't seem to have a syslog socket $ vng -r ... $ ls /dev/log ls: cannot access '/dev/log': No such file or directory
