[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#537182: Re Bug#537182: Leftover startpar process - any clue to spare?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Will have to check if rsyslog closes stdout and stderr.
> 
> This actually seem to be the problem.  I tested adding '> /dev/null
> 2>&1' to the line in init.d/rsyslog starting rsyslog, and this solved
> the problem.
> 
> This make me conclude that rsyslog need to be changed to close stdin
> and stdout, and thus I reassign this issue to rsyslog.

Make it close *every* open fd it gets when it is going daemon.  Just like
detaching from the controlling terminal and starting a new session head
(which I assume it already does).

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