From 6a877a79c4c94d4e6752c981559ac85f21073973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:01:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dracut-logger.sh: check is journald.socket is active

before using systemd-cat, make sure someone is listening
---
 dracut-logger.sh | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dracut-logger.sh b/dracut-logger.sh
index 0c505e2..b052581 100755
--- a/dracut-logger.sh
+++ b/dracut-logger.sh
@@ -141,7 +141,10 @@ dlog_init() {
     fi
 
     if (( $sysloglvl > 0 )); then
-        if [[ -d /run/systemd/journal ]] && type -P systemd-cat &>/dev/null && (( $UID  == 0 )) ; then
+        if [[ -d /run/systemd/journal ]] \
+            && type -P systemd-cat &>/dev/null \
+            && (( $UID  == 0 )) \
+            && systemctl is-active systemd-journald.socket  &>/dev/null; then
             readonly _dlogdir="$(mktemp --tmpdir="$TMPDIR/" -d -t dracut-log.XXXXXX)"
             readonly _systemdcatfile="$_dlogdir/systemd-cat"
             mkfifo "$_systemdcatfile"