Bug 195852

Summary: mail/opensmtpd stops logging if syslogd is restarted
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Jason Mann <jason.mann>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Dima Panov <fluffy>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: diizzy, rudolphfroger, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (ashish)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   

Description Jason Mann 2014-12-10 14:49:37 UTC 
- Overview:

mail/opensmtpd logging stops working if syslogd is restarted, until opensmtpd is also restarted

- Steps to reproduce:

While opensmtpd is running and logging mail server activity, restart syslogd.

- Actual Results:

opensmtpd no longer logs through syslog.

- Expected Results:

opensmtpd should continue to log after syslog is restarted.

- Additional information:

Discussion with the software author and the FreeBSD port maintainer indicates that the root cause of this problem is that opensmtpd's processes open /dev/log before chrooting to /var/empty.

If syslogd is restarted, the file descriptors pointing at /dev/log are invalidated.  The opensmtpd processes try to reopen /dev/log, but as they are now chrooted to an empty directory, it is not found.
Comment 1 Bugzilla Automation freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-12-10 14:49:37 UTC 
Auto-assigned to maintainer ashish@FreeBSD.org
Comment 2 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-01-14 00:23:47 UTC 
Maintainer feedback?
Comment 3 Dima Panov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-01-14 04:07:05 UTC 
(In reply to w.schwarzenfeld from comment #2)

Waiting for new, refactored opensmtpd release.
Comment 4 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-01-14 04:15:01 UTC 
Thanks of reply.
Comment 5 Rudolph 2021-01-25 14:51:58 UTC 
Any news on this? On opensmtpd-6.8.0,1 I can confirm this bug still exists (FreeBSD 12.2).
Comment 6 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-08-07 17:32:42 UTC 
(In reply to Rudolph from comment #5)
Can you please submit a bug report upstream?
https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD/issues