Subject: bug#55080: closed (Re: bug#55080: [PATCH shepherd] service: Gracefully handle non-existing log directories.)

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:20:02 +0000

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#55080: [PATCH shepherd] service: Gracefully handle non-existing log directories.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#55080: [PATCH shepherd] service: Gracefully handle non-existing log directories.
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:18:58 +0200
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Hi Liliana,

Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Am Sonntag, dem 01.05.2022 um 15:32 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> > 
>> > > Did you encounter this issue while working on services?
>> > > 
>> > > Am I right that the Shepherd 0.8 had the same problem?
>> > It might be, I don't know.  I've encountered this for non-existing
>> > log directory, so a reproducer would be setting #:log-file to
>> > $test-tmp-directory/does-not-exist/log and check for each service.
>> 
>> Usually /var/log and similar directories are created not by shepherd
>> but by Guix System, the distro being used, or whatever.  That’s why I
>> wonder if it’s shepherd’s job to do that.
> Hmm, it might not be.  Still, I wouldn't like shepherd to fail in such
> a weird manner if the log file can't be created.

I reread this thread and I concur.  Patch finally pushed as
b0d3f625543bcb32e94167c27cba153f9fc03acd.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Subject: [PATCH shepherd] service: Gracefully handle non-existing log directories.
From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:11:50 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* gnu/packages/services.scm (%service-file-logger): New variable,
implementing...
(service-file-logger): ... the old behaviour of this variable.  Catch system
errors from %service-file-logger and handle them.
---
 modules/shepherd/service.scm | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/shepherd/service.scm b/modules/shepherd/service.scm
index 013347b..567a08b 100644
--- a/modules/shepherd/service.scm
+++ b/modules/shepherd/service.scm
@@ -873,9 +873,9 @@ daemon writing FILE is running in a separate PID namespace."
               (try-again)
               (apply throw args)))))))
 
-(define (service-file-logger file input)
-  "Return a thunk meant to run as a fiber that reads from INPUT and logs it to
-FILE."
+(define (%service-file-logger file input)
+  "Like 'service-file-logger', but doesn't handle the case in which FILE does
+not exist."
   (let* ((fd     (open-fdes file (logior O_CREAT O_WRONLY O_APPEND) #o640))
          (output (fdopen fd "al")))
     (set-port-encoding! output "UTF-8")
@@ -894,6 +894,19 @@ FILE."
                  (format output "~a~a~%" prefix line)
                  (loop))))))))))
 
+(define (service-file-logger file input)
+  "Return a thunk meant to run as a fiber that reads from INPUT and logs it to
+FILE."
+  (catch 'system-error
+    (lambda ()
+      (%service-file-logger file input))
+    (lambda args
+      (if (= ENOENT (system-error-errno args))
+          (begin
+            (mkdir-p (dirname file))
+            (%service-file-logger file input))
+          (apply throw args)))))
+
 (define (service-builtin-logger command input)
   "Return a thunk meant to run as a fiber that reads from INPUT and logs to
 'log-output-port'."
-- 
2.35.1