https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10380

Issue ID: 10380 Summary: file logger doesn't emit slapd startup/version info Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: ondra@mistotebe.net Target Milestone: ---

When using syslog, a startup message is emitted which is useful in many different contexts: - signals a slapd restart to the admin - shows the actual version used - if a crash happened just before, there is no "stopped" message, this is a hint to anyone looking that something was not right and the slapd is not the same process - people writing log processing scripts (incident response) know when it's necessary to reset their state, again as it's a new process

Because of the above, it feels like a regression to me.

I guess we can just emit this info on logfile config handlers? This means startups and logfile switches are still handled as they used to in syslog and log rotation doesn't emit anything (making it easy and safe to just concatenate files).

Yes, slapd logs its PID in most formats so restarts can be detected that way, but that's considerably harder to search for.