Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>:

improve error message if netlink initialization fails

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 25c8c38..815da0d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ o eliminate unsed cache_get_conntrack() in rs_list_to_tx()
 o remove capability code and rely on the error returned by the syscall
 o major simplification of the logging infrastructure
 o use fputs() instead of fprintf() in log.c
+o improve error message if netlink initialization fails
 
 version 0.9.5 (2007/07/29)
 ------------------------------
diff --git a/src/run.c b/src/run.c
index a5b6a79..3b50ac8 100644
--- a/src/run.c
+++ b/src/run.c
@@ -116,14 +116,16 @@ init(void)
 	}
 
 	if (nl_init_event_handler() == -1) {
-		dlog(LOG_ERR, "can't open netlink handler! "
-				 	  "no ctnetlink kernel support?");
+		dlog(STATE(log), LOG_ERR, "can't open netlink handler: %s",
+		     strerror(errno));
+		dlog(STATE(log), LOG_ERR, "no ctnetlink kernel support?");
 		return -1;
 	}
 
 	if (nl_init_dump_handler() == -1) {
-		dlog(LOG_ERR, "can't open netlink handler! "
-				 "no ctnetlink kernel support?");
+		dlog(STATE(log), LOG_ERR, "can't open netlink handler: %s",
+		     strerror(errno));
+		dlog(STATE(log), LOG_ERR, "no ctnetlink kernel support?");
 		return -1;
 	}