[krbdev.mit.edu #3277] doubled kerberos logging to stderr

[Denis Vlasenko via RT]

On Monday 19 December 2005 01:24, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2005, at 07:35, Denis Vlasenko via RT wrote:
> > 2005-12-18 14:26:49.560868500 conf_files
> > 2005-12-18 14:26:49.561030500 conf_file:/etc/krb5.conf
> > 2005-12-18 14:26:49.561846500 conf_file:/etc/krb5.conf
> > 2005-12-18 14:26:49.562310500 kdc
> 
> Okay, that looks like the default profile path has /etc/krb5.conf  
> listed twice.  Could you check in the generated include/krb5/osconf.h  
> and see what DEFAULT_PROFILE_PATH (and DEFAULT_SECURE_PROFILE_PATH)  
> is defined as?  Normally it should be /etc/krb5.conf and $sysconfdir/ 
> krb5.conf, where $sysconfdir is normally $prefix/etc, so unless  
> prefix is empty or you set sysconfdir, something funny is going on.   

Bingo.

#define DEFAULT_SECURE_PROFILE_PATH     "/etc/krb5.conf:/etc/krb5.conf"

I did set configure --sysconfdir=/etc.

> Perhaps the sed substitution done in include/krb5/Makefile didn't  
> work right, and generated a broken osconf.h?
> 
> (It looks like we *will* do the wrong thing if --sysconfdir=/ is  
> given at configure time.  We should perhaps have the profile code  
> check whether the same file is included twice even via different  
> paths, and not duplicate the data -- though having the hard-link  
> behavior be different from copy-of-file behavior would be a little  
> odd.  And all of that aside, I think it would make sense for the  
> logging code to ignore duplicates, but since duplicates could  
> probably confuse other bits of our code too, that's not a complete fix.)
> 
> > 2005-12-18 14:27:43.615334500 conf_file:/usr/app/krb5-1.4.3/var/ 
> > krb5kdc/kdc.conf - can't read it
> 
> This uses DEFAULT_KDC_PROFILE, also defined in osconf.h, but that  
> uses $localstatedir, normally $prefix/var.  So it looks like that  
> part of the sed substitution worked...
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vda