duende Does Not Work Under FreeBSD

["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik"]

I'm running maradns on OpenBSD with duende logging just fine same
version as you and a more recent one.


On 19:39:03 2008-08-26 "Greg Platt - Platt Consultants"
<GregPlatt at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> For the record, Lew, the Debian install of Mara does not use the duende
> program at all -- either for logging or for mara initiation. I've
> forgotten the name of the utility used to "daemon-ize" mara at this
> moment, but it's definitely NOT duende. And for the life of me, I
> couldn't figure out exactly where the mara run-time log gets placed on
> Debian either. I guess this is one of those cases where the
> "debian-ites" decided they had a "better way" to handle logging but
> never bothered to document how the new-improved method works.
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at maradns.org [mailto:list-bounces at maradns.org] On
> Behalf Of Lew Payne
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: list at maradns.org
> Subject: duende Does Not Work Under FreeBSD
> 
> I've been running the version of maradns that is in the ports
> collection for FreeBSD.  In my case, it is MaraDNS version 1.2.12.08.
> 
> The "duende" program has never worked for me, as far as logging.  This
> is actually not a new discussion; I had an email discussion with Sam
> about this more than a year ago.  The only way I have found to be able
> to capture maradns output for logging (syslog) has been to modify the
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/maradns.sh startup script as follows:
> 
> # diff maradns.*
> < command="${prefix}/bin/duende"
> ---
> > command="${prefix}/sbin/${name}"
> 36c36
> < flags="${prefix}/sbin/${name} ${maradns_flags}"
> ---
> > flags="${maradns_flags} | logger -t maradns -p local1.notice &"
> 
> Again, the duende program does spawn/start maradns the way it's
> supposed to.  However, the logging does not work.  I am noting this on
> this mailing list so that other future FreeBSD or BDS-derivative users
> can easily find it via a search.
> 
> Lew Payne
> lew.payne at gmail.com


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