From d87da4c7776d0e16b8ce6c3a583d21209c3db144 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:48:57 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] dracut-logger.sh: do not log to syslog/kmsg/journal for UID

 != 0

Don't clutter the system log with user actions.

Also check, if systemd-cat works, before using it.

---

 dracut-logger.sh | 10 ++++++++--

 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dracut-logger.sh b/dracut-logger.sh

index b052581e..f679dc94 100755

--- a/dracut-logger.sh

+++ b/dracut-logger.sh

@@ -140,11 +140,16 @@ dlog_init() {

         fi

     fi

+    if (( $UID  != 0 )); then

+        kmsgloglvl=0

+        sysloglvl=0

+    fi

+

     if (( $sysloglvl > 0 )); then

         if [[ -d /run/systemd/journal ]] \

             && type -P systemd-cat &>/dev/null \

-            && (( $UID  == 0 )) \

-            && systemctl is-active systemd-journald.socket  &>/dev/null; then

+            && systemctl --quiet is-active systemd-journald.socket &>/dev/null \

+            && { echo "dracut-$DRACUT_VERSION" | systemd-cat -t 'dracut' &>/dev/null; } ; then

             readonly _dlogdir="$(mktemp --tmpdir="$TMPDIR/" -d -t dracut-log.XXXXXX)"

             readonly _systemdcatfile="$_dlogdir/systemd-cat"

             mkfifo "$_systemdcatfile"

@@ -153,6 +158,7 @@ dlog_init() {

             exec 15>"$_systemdcatfile"

         elif ! [ -S /dev/log -a -w /dev/log ] || ! command -v logger >/dev/null; then

             # We cannot log to syslog, so turn this facility off.

+            kmsgloglvl=$sysloglvl

             sysloglvl=0

             ret=1

             errmsg="No '/dev/log' or 'logger' included for syslog logging"