messages received from the network. Useful for collecting logs from
devices which do not have correct time.
Add it to usage.
Document it, also document that syslogd adds a timestamp with the local
time if it does not recognize the original timestamp field. Bump date.
Approved by wrstuden@.
kqueue descriptor, because we set up events after we parse the file.
Unfortuntately, this means that we also have to do the chroot before
we read the config file. But this is OK -- the config file has to be
in the chroot environment anyway, because it has to be able to get to
it after SIGHUP.
Grrr, all because stupid kqueue descriptors are not inherited across
a fork. LAME.
include:
- Extend the syntax of syslog.conf to allow selections of log destinations
by comma-separated lists of program name (including kernel-generated
messages) and originating host name.
- Ability to pipe selected messages through arbitrary filter commands.
- Ability to specify priority comparison operations.
- Improvements to domain name handling.
- Conversion to use kqueue for communication and signal events, eliminating
all unsafe signal handlers.
- Allow spaces as well as tabs in syslog.conf.
- Log kernel printfs at LOG_NOTICE instad of LOG_CRIT.
- Ability to log facility/priority with a log message.
- Reliability improvements.
This avoids some seriously gratuitous disk hosage in various cases.
XXX It would probably be better to allow this to be specified in the config
file somehow.
the same string into "last message repeated N times", and instead forces
syslogd to write out every message.
Based on '-c' in FreeBSD's syslogd, although a different option letter was
chosen because their syslogd requires '-c -c' to get this functionality,
and we don't have the support for logging to pipes which is what FreeBSD's
syslogd with a single '-c' is related to.
stdout before syslogd becomes a daemon.
- Flags for setuid/setgid/chroot syslogd after initialization is completed
- Warning instead of silent ignoring for malformed lines (with spaces instead
of tags)
Approved by Christos
snj