directing logs to a broadcast address results in "sendto: Permission denied"

Bug #365932 reported by Tom Metro
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sysklogd (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
sysklogd (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sysklogd

If you modify your /etc/syslog.conf to have a line like:
*.crit @192.168.0.255

restart sysklogd, and then run:
logger -p local0.crit -t foo "message"

you'll observe in /var/log/daemon.log:
Apr 24 04:14:29 host syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart.
Apr 24 04:15:13 host syslogd: sendto: Permission denied

It appears this is because syslog isn't enabling broadcast on the socket it is using. See:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Linux/Q_20862022.html

Observed in Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian Etch (I haven't tested 8.10; will you guys open an upstream ticket or shall I? I haven't checked to see if one already exists in the DBTS).

Being able to send logs to a broadcast address is supposedly something that is supposed to work, according to various third party documents on configuring syslog (not syslog-ng).

Tags: udd-find
tags: added: udd-find
Changed in sysklogd (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in sysklogd (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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