[oi-dev] Sendmail logging to wrong facility

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:26:12PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> > On 18 Sep 2018, at 22:24, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:57:40PM +0300, Toomas Soome via oi-dev wrote:
> >> 
> >>   var/log/daemon.6:Aug  1 12:48:19 beastie sendmail[1189]: [ID 702911
> >>   [7]daemon.info] starting daemon (8.14.4+Sun): SMTP+queueing at 00:15:00
> > 
> >>   apparently the daemon part is logging using daemon facility.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the problem.  How do I determine what's causing it?
> > It's likely not sendmail itself.
> > 
> 
> daemon() call? I guess dtrace would help.

Yes, I thought of dtrace too, but that's as far as I got.  I'm not
at all familiar with dtrace.

I need something that would enable the MTA service and then display
the openlog() function calls, showing me the calling function for each
of them.  That should tell me what is changing the syslog facility.


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