[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#989656: Bug#989656: Xen misusing syslog

Hans van Kranenburg
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:04:07 -0000

reassign 989656 src:xen 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1
tags 989656 + upstream
thanks

Hi Phillip,

On 6/9/21 5:04 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Package: xen-utils-common
> Version: 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1
>
> My syslog has entries that look like this:
>
> Jun 09 10:54:26 hyper1 root[621]: /etc/xen/scripts/block: add
> XENBUS_PATH=backend/vbd/1/768
>
> The third field is supposed to be the program name, which I would expect
> to either be xen or xl or something, but instead it appears to be
> passing $USER.

Yeah, that's a bit weird yes.

I guess this is one of the many things that have to be dealt with when
doing a great overhaul of all the ancient scripts-stuff in xen.

I'm marking it 'upstream' now, since we cannot fix this in the
Debian
packaging process, any solution should go 'upstream-first'.

Hans