From: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:00:48 +0100
Subject: Open/close syslog on every call

Open and close syslog on every call to log_it().

This ancient change seems to stem from a time when there were various conflicts
with PAM -- for example PAM apparently changed the facility from LOG_CRON to
LOG_AUTH.

I could not reproduce this and other issues alluded to, and this fix is not
present in other Vixie cron derivatives. However, those other derivatives are
based on 4.1, so it might be possible that this fix is still needed for 3.0,
which is why I'm keeping it for now.

Contributed by Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>.

Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2019-03-07
Index: cron/misc.c
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/misc.c
+++ cron/misc.c
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ static char rcsid[] = "$Id: misc.c,v 2.9
 #define LOG_CRON LOG_DAEMON
 #endif
 
-#if defined(SYSLOG)
-	static int		syslog_open = 0;
-#endif
-
 
 static int		LogFD = ERR;
 
@@ -584,15 +580,12 @@ log_it(username, xpid, event, detail)
 #endif /*LOG_FILE*/
 
 #if defined(SYSLOG)
-	if (!syslog_open) {
 # ifdef LOG_CRON
-		openlog(ProgramName, LOG_PID, LOG_CRON);
+	openlog(ProgramName, LOG_PID, LOG_CRON);
 # else
-		openlog(ProgramName, LOG_PID);
+	openlog(ProgramName, LOG_PID);
 # endif
-		syslog_open = TRUE;		/* assume openlog success */
-	}
-
+
 	syslog(LOG_INFO, "(%s) %s (%s)", username, event, detail);
 
 #endif /*SYSLOG*/
@@ -616,7 +609,6 @@ log_close() {
 #endif
 #if defined(SYSLOG)
 	closelog();
-	syslog_open = FALSE;
 #endif
 }