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<title>NetBSD & Google's Summer of Code: Martin Schuette - Improve syslogd (syslogd)</title>
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<td><a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/"><img border=0 valign="top" src="../../NetBSD.png" alt="[NetBSD logo]" /></a></td>
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<td><font size="+5"> & </font></td>
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<h1>NetBSD-SoC: Improve syslogd</h1>
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<h2>What is it?</h2>
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<p>The syslog daemon handles most log messages of a unixoid system. It receives messages from shell-scripts, applications, daemons, the kernel, or by network and then writes them into logfiles, on user's consoles or forwards them to some other logserver -- all depending on its configuration and the message properties.</p>
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<p>implemented the upcoming <a class="ext-link" href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/syslog/">IETF
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standards</a> for <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>'s syslog(3)
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and syslogd(8):
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<ul><li><a class="ext-link"
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href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls"><span
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class="icon">transport-tls</span></a> defines the network protocol to send
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syslog data over TLS (instead of UDP), thus providing a reliable and
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authenticated transport.
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</li><li><a class="ext-link"
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href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-protocol"><span
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class="icon">syslog-protocol</span></a> defines a new layout for syslog
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lines; the most important additions are full timestamps (with year and timezone)
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and structured data with name=value pairs. This enables all programs to declare
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semantic content (uid, client IP, return codes, etc), making automatic
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log-monitoring (or at least parsing) much easier.
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</li><li><a class="ext-link"
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href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-sign"><span
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class="icon">syslog-sign</span></a> defines signature messages to assert
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authentication, integrity and correct sequencing of syslog messages.
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</li></ul><p>
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To my knowledge this is one of the first implementations of these
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protocols. It will provide NetBSD (and hopefully the other BSDs as well) with
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an advanced, reliable, and secure syslogd; thus saving admins the time and
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effort to install custom logging solutions just to get secure transport to
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their central logserver.
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<h2>Current Status</h2>
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<h3>Functions</h3>
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<h4>TLS</h4>
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<p>The TLS support is now working (tested with RSA and DSA keys).
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It will read its configuration from syslog.conf, accept incoming TLS connections
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to receive messages, establish connections to other TLS servers.</p>
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<p>If a TLS server is temporarily not available then its messages will be buffered
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and sent after reconnection.</p>
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<h4>syslog-protocol</h4>
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<p>A command line option determines whether syslogd output is in BSD Syslog or in syslog-protocol format. All received messages are converted accordingly.</p>
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<p>I also modified syslog(3) in libc to send syslog-protocol messages.</p>
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<p>While syslog(3) can only use the message field, a new syslogp(3) call is provided to add a MSGID and structured data to a message.</p>
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<h4>syslog-sign</h4>
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<p>syslogd(8) is now able to <a href="sign.html">digitally sign messages with syslog-sign.</a></p>
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<h3>syslog.conf</h3>
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<p>I extended the traditional configuration file format to support additionally fields for TLS.
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A syslog.conf for TLS currently looks like this:</p>
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# TLS options
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tls_ca="/etc/my.cacert"
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tls_cert="/etc/localhost.crt"
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tls_key="/etc/localhost.key"
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tls_verify="off"
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tls_bindhost="127.0.0.1"
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tls_bindport="13245"
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tls_server=on
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# file destination
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*.* /home/mschuett/test.log
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# UDP destination
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*.* @192.168.178.5
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# TLS destination
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*.* @[127.0.0.1]:5555(fingerprint="SHA1:E4:E1:A6:1C:D4:31:D7:D4:9B:B8:DC:DF:DD:CE:30:71:46:00:92:C9")
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<h3>Source Code</h3>
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<p>To try syslogd fetch the latest <a href="http://mschuette.name/files/syslogd_080818.tar.gz">.tar.gz archive (2008-08-18)</a> (older versions: <a href="http://mschuette.name/files/syslogd_080805.tar.gz">2008-08-05</a>, <a href="http://mschuette.name/files/syslogd-tls.tar.gz">2008-08-05</a>).</p>
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<p>The sources for <a href="http://netbsd-soc.cvs.sourceforge.net/netbsd-soc/syslogd/src/">syslogd</a>, the <a href="http://netbsd-soc.cvs.sourceforge.net/netbsd-soc/syslogd/src-libc_gen/">libc functions</a>, <a href="http://netbsd-soc.cvs.sourceforge.net/netbsd-soc/syslogd/src-newsyslog/">newsyslog</a>, and <a href="http://netbsd-soc.cvs.sourceforge.net/netbsd-soc/syslogd/src-logger/">logger</a> are also available from the <a href="http://netbsd-soc.cvs.sourceforge.net/netbsd-soc/syslogd/">CVS on sourceforge</a>.</p>
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<p>For development I used an own <a href="https://anonymous:anonymous@barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/svn/syslogd/trunk/src/">SVN</a>; a detailed timeline of code changes is available in the <a href="https://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/trac/syslogd/timeline">on my Trac</a>.</p>
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<p>The syslogd code needs <a href="http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL"></a> and <a href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">libevent</a>. The only system-dependent function is wallmsg() to write messages to users's terminals.<br/>
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It was developed and tested on NetBSD and FreeBSD. I heard it does not compile on OpenBSD (I do not know about DragonflyBSD), probably due to different files under /usr/include. I would be interested if someone tried to compile on Linux; this will be some more work, because one will also need additional functions from BSDs libc that are not in glibc (most notably strlcat()).</p>
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<h2>Deliverables</h2>
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I got all my <b>mandatory components</b>:
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<li>Implement transport-tls in syslogd(8)</li>
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<li>Implement syslog-protocol in syslogd(8)</li>
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<li>Implement syslog-protocol in syslog(3)</li>
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<li>Implement syslog-sign in syslogd(8)</li>
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...and parts of my <b>optional components</b>:
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<li>interoperability with other implementations: so far I could only test TLS-transport with rsyslog</li>
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<li>Extended API to use new functions: with syslogp() I wrote a new API; but it is not really the extended API I had in mind here.</li>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<p>New manpages and description:</p>
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<li>my <a href="./doc/syslogd.8.html">syslogd(8)</a></li>
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<li>my <a href="./doc/syslog.conf.5.html">syslog.conf(5)</a></li>
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<li>my <a href="./doc/syslog.3.html">syslog(3)/syslogp(3)</a></li>
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<li><a href="howto.html">How-To configure a TLS transport</a></li>
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<li><a href="sign.html">Overview of syslog-sign and its usage</a></li>
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<p>Existing specifications and man-pages:</p>
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<li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164">RFC3164: The BSD syslog Protocol</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?syslogd++NetBSD-current">syslogd(8)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?syslog.conf+5+NetBSD-current">syslog.conf(5)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?syslog+3+NetBSD-current">syslog(3)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/syslog.h.html">SUS on syslog.h</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/syslog.html">SUS on syslog()</a></li>
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<p>IETF documents:</p>
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<li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-transport-udp">Transmission of syslog messages over UDP (draft-ietf-syslog-transport-udp)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls">TLS Transport Mapping for Syslog (draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-protocol">The syslog Protocol (draft-ietf-syslog-protocol)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-syslog-sign">Signed syslog Messages (draft-ietf-syslog-sign)</a></li>
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<tr> <td> Martin Schütte <<tt>info@mschuette.name</tt>> </td> </tr>
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<tr> <td> $Id: index.html,v 1.1 2008/10/31 16:12:19 christos Exp $ </td> </tr>
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