From 76a2d7bad2f69787569f842d9d154524c4758ce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Hazel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:38 +0000 Subject: Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" to go to the mainlog by default. --- doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/doc-txt') diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index 799999e70..eaec31c78 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.75 2005/01/27 10:26:14 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.76 2005/01/27 15:00:39 ph10 Exp $ Change log file for Exim from version 4.21 ------------------------------------------- @@ -351,6 +351,16 @@ Exim version 4.50 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok +75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that + those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything + wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it + could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens + stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the + background. + +76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main + log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic. + ---------------------------------------------------- See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases. -- cgit v1.2.3