Werk #5509: cmk-update-agent: Prevent agent update from crashing while setting up syslog

Component	Agent bakery
Title	cmk-update-agent: Prevent agent update from crashing while setting up syslog
Date	Aug 17, 2018
Level	Trivial Change
Class	Bug Fix
Compatibility	Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions	1.6.0b1 Not yet released Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.6.0b1 Not yet released Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.6.0b1 Not yet released Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.6.0b1 Not yet released Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.6.0b1 Not yet released Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.6.0b1 Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0p3 Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

If syslog setup failed (on Linux), namely if /dev/log is not available, the agent updater would crash. This is now mitigated by catching errors while setting up logging to syslog. A failure will now result in a warning instead of a crash.

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