some users want to run tinyproxy on an as-needed basis in a terminal,
without setting it up permanently to run as a daemon/service.
in such use case, it is very annoying that tinyproxy didn't have
an option to log to stdout, so the user has to keep a second terminal
open to `tail -f` the log.
additionally, this precluded usage with runit service supervisor,
which runs all services in foreground and creates logfiles from the
service's stdout/stderr.
since logging to stdout doesn't make sense when daemonized, now if
no logfile is specified and daemon mode activated, a warning is
printed to stderr once, and nothing is logged.
the original idea was to fail with an error message, though some users
might actually want to run tinyproxy as daemon and no logging at all.
some people want to run tinyproxy with minimal configuration from
the command line (and as non-root), but tinyproxy insists on writing
a pid file, which only makes sense for usage as a service, hereby
forcing the user to either run it as root so it can write to the
default location, or start editing the default config file to work
around it.
and if no pidfile is specified in the config, it frankly doesn't
make sense to force creation of one anyway.
Supplementary groups are inherited from the calling process. Drop all
supplementary groups if the "Group" configuration directive is set to
change to a different user. Otherwise the process may have more rights
than expected.
Reviewed-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
I.e., add a tinyproxy subdirectory.
This is meant to ease running tinyproxy as non-root user.
The subdirectory can be used to give the tinyproxy user
write permission.
Michael
i.e. add a tinyproxy subdirectory.
This is meant to ease running tinyproxy as non-root user
the subdirectory can be used to give the tinyproxy user
write permission.
Michael
This is the second part of fixing bug #74.
I lets tinyproxy create its log and pid files as the
user as which it is running, so that later on at SIGHUP,
the log file can successfully be reopened.
Michael
This includes reopening the log file (in append mode).
Also switching from syslog to logfile and visa versa are included
when called from the SIGHUP handler.
Michael
This seemed out of place. Now the information is
stored in the correct places (as log.c:logging_initialized).
This way, we will be able to cleanly re-initialize
logging during config reload (SIGHUP) in subsequent
commits.
Michael
