From 5ef077e58ca5bbb208bf942facd6fdf53180abfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: willthames <will@thames.id.au>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:49:44 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] syslog.openlog does not cope with unicode first argument

It seems that os.path.basename(__file__) can return a unicode
string. In this case syslog.openlog fails. Forcing the result
to a string causes the resulting error to go away.
---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index 51fb1f7499a..d6ed081faed 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             journal.sendv(*journal_args)
         else:
             msg = ''
-            syslog.openlog('ansible-%s' % os.path.basename(__file__), 0, syslog.LOG_USER)
+            syslog.openlog('ansible-%s' % str(os.path.basename(__file__)), 0, syslog.LOG_USER)
             for arg in log_args:
                 msg = msg + arg + '=' + str(log_args[arg]) + ' '
             if msg: