upgradepkg of sysklogd doesn't create rc.syslog.new

RandomTroll · 12-27-2020, 11:27 AM

upgradepkg on recent sysklogd packages hasn't created /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.new but has linked /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog to it, resulting in syslog messages in stdout.

Isn't sysklogd a misnomer because klogd has been eliminated?

rworkman · 12-27-2020, 03:30 PM

Yes, sysklogd is technically a misnomer, but it seems that upstream is still calling it that, so...

Re rc.syslog.new, the package definitely installs that file:

Code:

$ grep rc.syslog /var/log/packages/sysklogd-2.1.2-x86_64-3 
etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.new

and the postinstall script definitely operates on it:

Code:

grep rc.syslog /var/log/scripts/sysklogd-2.1.2-x86_64-3 
config etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.new

What do you mean by "linked ... to it" in your statement?

RandomTroll · 12-27-2020, 08:17 PM

rc.syslog.new is in the package but isn't in /etc/rc.d after I run upgradepkg even upgradepkg --reinstall. /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog exists: it's a link to /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.new which doesn't exist. I mentioned it here because I want to know why a file in a package wouldn't get installed. Maybe there's something funny or wrong about my installation.

rworkman · 12-27-2020, 10:34 PM

So you see this?

Code:

# ls -lh rc.syslog 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 27 22:26 rc.syslog -> rc.syslog.new

I don't know of any way for that to have occurred other than manually, i.e. something like this:

Code:

root@liberty:/etc/rc.d# pwd
/etc/rc.d
root@liberty:/etc/rc.d# ls -lh rc.syslog 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 669 Dec 23 14:05 rc.syslog*
root:/etc/rc.d# rm -f rc.syslog 
root:/etc/rc.d# ln -s rc.syslog.new rc.syslog

After doing this, it is indeed a failure case. The package extracts rc.syslog.new as expected. The postinstall process then compares the two files (rc.syslog and rc.syslog.new, which are actually the same file), and since they're identical, it removes rc.syslog.new, which leaves things just as broken as they were before.

Summary: this isn't something that pkgtools created or is able to solve. Recommendation:

Code:

rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog.new ; slackpkg reinstall sysklogd

RandomTroll · 12-28-2020, 12:33 AM

I hope that it's obvious that if I were capable of doing something like that I'm capable of figuring it out and fixing it. I didn't do anything until I booted and saw messages that syslogd was supposed to log dumped on my terminal. I had no trouble extracting rc.syslog.new from the package and putting it in /etc/rc.d. I reported it here not because I needed help fixing it but in case there were a bug in Slackware or some oddity of my system somebody else could see that would have such a symptom.