log/syslog: skip tests that depend on daemon on builders

Some functions in log/syslog depend on syslogd running. Instead of
treating errors caused by the daemon not running as test failures,
ignore them and skip the test.

Fixes the longtest builder.

Change-Id: I628fe4aab5f1a505edfc0748861bb976ed5917ea
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113838
Run-TryBot: Alberto Donizetti <alb.donizetti@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/log/syslog/syslog_test.go b/src/log/syslog/syslog_test.go
index 6da3edd55565bf85f7262ea5ae09e2bd5d8c0879..447654a87496cda2551d3ccb4471c73f10663c77 100644 (file)
--- a/src/log/syslog/syslog_test.go
+++ b/src/log/syslog/syslog_test.go
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ func TestNew(t *testing.T) {
 
        s, err := New(LOG_INFO|LOG_USER, "the_tag")
        if err != nil {
+               if err.Error() == "Unix syslog delivery error" {
+                       t.Skip("skipping: syslogd not running")
+               }
                t.Fatalf("New() failed: %s", err)
        }
        // Don't send any messages.
@@ -226,6 +229,9 @@ func TestNewLogger(t *testing.T) {
        }
        f, err := NewLogger(LOG_USER|LOG_INFO, 0)
        if f == nil {
+               if err.Error() == "Unix syslog delivery error" {
+                       t.Skip("skipping: syslogd not running")
+               }
                t.Error(err)
        }
 }
@@ -244,6 +250,9 @@ func TestDial(t *testing.T) {
        }
        l, err := Dial("", "", LOG_USER|LOG_ERR, "syslog_test")
        if err != nil {
+               if err.Error() == "Unix syslog delivery error" {
+                       t.Skip("skipping: syslogd not running")
+               }
                t.Fatalf("Dial() failed: %s", err)
        }
        l.Close()