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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/logging/handlers.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py index 7d77973..2356f8d 100644 --- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py +++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py @@ -815,7 +815,14 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler): if isinstance(address, str): self.unixsocket = True - self._connect_unixsocket(address) + # Syslog server may be unavailable during handler initialisation. + # C's openlog() function also ignores connection errors. + # Moreover, we ignore these errors while logging, so it not worse + # to ignore it also here. + try: + self._connect_unixsocket(address) + except OSError: + pass else: self.unixsocket = False if socktype is None: |