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[shepherd] Test failures on GNU/Hurd

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: yelninei <at> tutamail.com
Cc: 77634 <77634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#77634: [shepherd] Test failures on GNU/Hurd
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:19:56 +0200

Hey,

yelninei <at> tutamail.com writes:

> The last thing that still needs fixing is the message-destination
> procedure in the system-log.sh test. Currently It sends all messages
> to the $syslog_remote_file if the message has a sender, but arguably
> the (null) AF_UNIX sockets are not remote.

Oh right.  I think 2d70e2f3948910ab97b9d90d75aa0196596fa917 should fix
it.

> I then tried the shepherd syslogd on the childhurd but some things were not quite right:
> - the /dev/klog messages are being logged but were missing the
> %kernel-prefix, i dont think this is a  problem with shepherd.
> - I saw no syslog messages in /var/log/messages, i.e. from sshd or a
> user shepherd logging to syslog. It just seems to stop logging to the
> main log file entirely after finishing with /dev/klog.
> Any ideas?

Yeah, I think that’s because of the streamio bug:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2025-04/msg00023.html

> Thank you for making shepherd very approachable. I had no issues
> understanding how the syslog service is supposed to work and hunt down
> the bug.

Thanks for the kind words.  I very much hope if feels approachable to as
many people as possible.

Ludo’.

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