Updating to Tinc 1.0.14 on Gentoo Linux

[Guus Sliepen]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:21:47PM +0200, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:

> >> Gentoo runs tincd as follows :
> >>
> >>  /usr/sbin/tincd --net=ninux --logfile=/var/log/tinc.ninux.log
> >> --pidfile=/var/run/tinc.ninux.pid
> >
> > Ah, that is because if you use --logfile, syslog is not used at all. Those long
> > numbers are "UNIX time" (the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UT). I
> > have been too lazy to have it write time in a human readable format. However, I
> > do remember someone sending me a patch that does that, so I'll find it and
> > apply it. However, the --logfile option is more something that is useful when
> > debugging tinc related issues; it does not work in comination with log rotation
> > for example. I would recommend removing the --logfile option, and the --pidfile
> > option also, because it is redundant.

The improved logging was merged in tinc 1.0.15.

> looks like --pidfile option is actually necessary because the build
> process of Gentoo will configure tincd as follows:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-jumbograms
> --enable-lzo --enable-zlib

The --localstatedir option is just wrong, it should be /var.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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