| @@ -815,7 +815,14 @@ def __init__(self, address=('localhost', SYSLOG_UDP_PORT), |
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if isinstance(address, str): |
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self.unixsocket = True |
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-self._connect_unixsocket(address) |
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+# Syslog server may be unavailable during handler initialisation. |
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+# C's openlog() function also ignores connection errors. |
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+# Moreover, we ignore these errors while logging, so it not worse |
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+# to ignore it also here. |
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+try: |
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+self._connect_unixsocket(address) |
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+except OSError: |
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+pass |
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else: |
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self.unixsocket = False |
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if socktype is None: |