Re: regression in logger output to syslog

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Thu, Oct 29, Karel Zak wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:37:43AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > > So, its "systemd" who eats the required info.
> > 
> > In case you miss it:
> > 
> > ...
> > We do not allow faking syslog PID fields, for security reasons, it
> > will always be set to what the kernel passed to journald.
> > 
> > If this is something to support, then "logger" needs to to be patched so
> > that it can fake the SCM_CREDENTIALS metadata of the messages sent.
> > This requires privileges, but is not hard to do. Please file a bug
> > against util-linux and ask for for this to be added.
> 
>  Implemented, try logger(1) from util-linux git tree, please. 

Not sure what the "We" above refers to, but this change from 27a9eb5
may still not work for me:

+                   && geteuid() == 0 && kill(ctl->pid, 0) == 0) {

For me its required to run logger as non-root and still get the
specified number, like it used to do it years ago.

Olaf