From aa667c333c3281a1b59d5fc64f46b8083c726e0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:26:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] /dev/console may not be writable in Syslog.pm (from Ask
 Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5489
---
 ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
index b447374..17ebb37 100644
--- a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+++ b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
@@ -242,10 +242,11 @@ sub syslog {
 		}
 	    }
 	    else {
-		open(CONS,">/dev/console");
-		print CONS "<$facility.$priority>$whoami: $message\r";
-		exit if defined $pid;		# if fork failed, we're parent
-		close CONS;
+		if (open(CONS,">/dev/console")) {
+		    print CONS "<$facility.$priority>$whoami: $message\r";
+		    exit if defined $pid;		# if fork failed, we're parent
+		    close CONS;
+		}
 	    }
 	}
     }
-- 
1.8.3.1