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Diffstat (limited to 'syslogd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | syslogd.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -6229,10 +6229,23 @@ static int prepareDynFile(selector_t *f) /* Ok, we finally can open the file */ f->f_file = open((char*) newFileName, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY, f->f_un.f_file.fCreateMode); + + if(f->f_file == -1) { + /* on first failure, we try to create parent directories and then + * retry the open. Only if that fails, we give up. We do not report + * any errors here ourselfs but let the code fall through to error + * handler below. + */ + if(makeFileParentDirs(newFileName, strlen(newFileName), + f->f_un.f_file.fCreateMode) == 0) { + f->f_file = open((char*) newFileName, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY, + f->f_un.f_file.fCreateMode); + } + } if(f->f_file == -1) { /* do not report anything if the message is an internally-generated * message. Otherwise, we could run into a never-ending loop. The bad - * news is that we also loose errors on startup messages, but so it is. + * news is that we also lose errors on startup messages, but so it is. */ if(f->f_pMsg->msgFlags & INTERNAL_MSG) dprintf("Could not open dynaFile, discarding message\n"); |