From 5b80cf3032d8bbe57de3b82dc2a831c8dcfba570 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VilhoRaatikka <vilho.raatikka@skysql.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:19:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] If opening any of the log files fail, MaxScale doesn't start
 before the cause has been removed. Added informative error message which is
 to be printed to standard error output.

---
 log_manager/log_manager.cc | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/log_manager/log_manager.cc b/log_manager/log_manager.cc
index 56bcb5588..9caafc676 100644
--- a/log_manager/log_manager.cc
+++ b/log_manager/log_manager.cc
@@ -2431,9 +2431,16 @@ static bool filewriter_init(
                                                            NULL);
                 }
             
-                if (fw->fwr_file[id] == NULL) {
+                if (fw->fwr_file[id] == NULL) 
+		{
+			fprintf(stderr, 
+				"Error : opening %s failed, %s. Exiting "
+				"MaxScale\n",
+				lf->lf_full_file_name,
+				strerror(errno));
                         goto return_succp;
                 }
+                
                 if (lf->lf_enabled) {
                         start_msg_str = strdup("---\tLogging is enabled.\n");
                 } else {