Unable to start plakar when syslog-ng is not started

[brmzkw]

To reproduce, start a docker container on ubuntu:

$ docker run --rm -ti ubuntu bash

Install deps:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y golang ca-certificates syslog-ng
go install github.com/PlakarKorp/plakar@fbf182410

Here, fbf182410 is a recent version of plakar, just pinned in this example so you can reproduce the bug.

then use plakar:

/root/go/bin/plakar create -plaintext
/root/go/bin/plakar ls
/root/go/bin/plakar: failed to run the agent

After starting syslog-ng manually, it works well:

syslog-ng
/root/go/bin/plakar ls

We should probably add some logging if the agent fails to start. I had to run strace to find the issue was related to syslog-ng.