History log of /freebsd-10.1-release/usr.sbin/syslogd/
Revision Date Author Comments
272461 03-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


259368 14-Dec-2013 ian

MFC r258076, r258077:

This fixes 3 problems in syslogd related to sizing receive buffers...

- A call was misplaced at the wrong level of nested if blocks, so that
the buffers for unix domain sockets (/dev/log, /dev/klog) were never
increased at all; they remained at a way-too-small default size of 4096.

- The function that was supposed to double the size of the buffer
sometimes did nothing, and sometimes installed a wildly-wrong buffer
size (either too large or too small) due to an unitialized 'slen'
variable passed to getsockopt(). Most often it doubled the UDP buffers
from 40k to 80k because accidentally there would be harmless stack
garbage in the unitialized variables.

- The whole concept of blindly doubling a socket's buffer size without
knowing what size it started at is a design flaw that has to be called a
bug. If the double_rbuf() function had worked at all (I.E., if the
other two bugs didn't exist) this would lead to UDP sockets having an
80k buffer while unix dgram sockets get an 8k buffer. There's nothing
about the problem being solved that requires larger buffers for UDP than
for unix dgram sockets -- the buffering requirements are the same
regardless of socket type.

This change renames the double_rbuf() function to increase_rbuf() and
increases the buffer size on all types of sockets to 80k. 80k was
chosen only because it appears to be the size the original change was
shooting for, and it certainly seems to be reasonably large (I might
have picked 64k in the absence of any historical guidance).

Add ENETUNREACH and EADDRNOTAVAIL to the list of errors that are potentially
transient and shouldn't result in closing the socket and giving up forever.


256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


249983 27-Apr-2013 jilles

syslogd: Use closefrom() instead of getdtablesize()/close() loop.

When syslogd forks a process for '|' destinations, it closes all file
descriptors greater than 2.

Use closefrom() for this instead of a getdtablesize()/close() loop because
it is both faster and avoids leaving file descriptors open because the limit
was lowered after they were opened.

MFC after: 1 week


244523 20-Dec-2012 markj

- Make sure that errno isn't modified before calling logerror() in error
conditions.
- Don't check for AF_INET6 when compiled without INET6 support.

PR: bin/173930
Submitted by: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Approved by: rstone (co-mentor)
MFC after: 1 week


241736 19-Oct-2012 ed

Add missing const keywords.


240409 12-Sep-2012 eadler

Add documentation for IPv6 support

PR: docs/171580
Submitted by: bdrewery
Reviewed by: wblock
Approved by: gjb
MFC after: 1 month
X-MFC-With: r240389


240389 12-Sep-2012 bapt

Add support for ipv6 addresses as destination

PR: bin/150530
Submitted by: andy white <andywhite@gmail.com>
Tested by: Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier@cochard.me>
MFC after: 1 month


236509 03-Jun-2012 joel

Minor spelling fixes.


232986 14-Mar-2012 sbruno

Update man page to present -T argument in synopsis

MFC with r183347

MFC after: 0 days


224002 14-Jul-2011 delphij

Add a new option, -N to disable the default and recommended syslogd(8)
behavior, which binds to the well known UDP port.

This option implies -s.

MFC after: 2 months


217589 19-Jan-2011 dwmalone

Here v->iov_len has been assigned the return value from snprintf.
Checking if it is > 0 doesn't make sense, because snprintf returns
how much space is needed if the buffer is too small. Instead, check
if the return value was greater than the buffer size, and truncate
the message if it was too long.

It isn't clear if snprintf can return a negative value in the case
of an error - I don't believe it can. If it can, then testing
v->iov_len won't help 'cos it is a size_t, not an ssize_t.

Also, as clang points out, we must always increment v here, because
later code depends on the message being in iov[5].


211055 08-Aug-2010 imp

This isn't WARNS=6 safe. It fails to build on mips. Retore old
WARNS?=3 until that's resolved.


211040 07-Aug-2010 olli

jh pointed out that src/usr.sbin already has a global
WARNS=6 setting in HEAD (unlike stable/8), so it's best
to remove the line entirely.

Pointed out by: jh
Approved by: des (mentor)


211023 07-Aug-2010 olli

syslogd(8) already supports *sending* log messages to non-
standard ports, but it can't *receive* them (port 514 is
hardcoded). This commit adds that missing feature.

(NB: I actually needed this feature for a server farm where
multiple jails run with shared IP addresses, and every jail
should have its own syslogd process.)

As a side effect, syslogd now compiles with WARNS=6.

Approved by: des (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks


202206 13-Jan-2010 ed

Port all applications in usr.sbin/ from libulog to utmpx.


200954 24-Dec-2009 ed

Let syslogd use utmpx.

Because strings are guaranteed to be null terminated, there is no need
for excessive copying of strings, such as the line name.


199804 25-Nov-2009 attilio

Avoid sshd, cron, syslogd and inetd to be killed under high-pressure swap
environments.
Please note that this can't be done while such processes run in jails.

Note: in future it would be interesting to find a way to do that
selectively for any desired proccess (choosen by user himself), probabilly
via a ptrace interface or whatever.

Obtained from: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, arch@
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC: 1 month


194037 11-Jun-2009 avg

syslog.conf(5): correct example

security.* and console.* are moved out of ftpd program block

Approved by: jhb (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks


186440 23-Dec-2008 trhodes

Add "crit" to the list of keywords.

PR: 126934


186331 19-Dec-2008 delphij

Constify 'name' field in struct funix. This commit makes syslogd(8)
WARNS?=6 on amd64 but I have not tested under universe so keep WARNS?=
level as-is for now.


186263 18-Dec-2008 avatar

Fixing !INET6 builds after bumping WARNS to 3.


186236 17-Dec-2008 obrien

Use passed parameter rather than the #define.
(more accurate extraction of Juniper Networks change)


186234 17-Dec-2008 obrien

Rather than hardcode the 'struct iovec iov' array size, use a #define.
While I'm here bump WARNS to 3.

Obtained from: Juniper Networks


185742 07-Dec-2008 trhodes

Use "allowed_peer" throughout this manual page.


183347 25-Sep-2008 dwmalone

Add a flag, -T, that tells syslogd to always replace the timestamp on
messages from the network. We already replace malformatted timestamps
and this option lets us replace timestamps that are correctly formatted
but wrong.

PR: 120891
Submitted by: Thomas Vogt <thomas@bsdunix.ch>
MFC after: 1 week


182605 01-Sep-2008 obrien

Remove extraneous NULL pointer check - the pointer is guaranteed to be non-NULL.


180380 09-Jul-2008 sobomax

Allow comment to be placed at the end of a configuration line.

MFC after: 2 weeks


178986 14-May-2008 brian

Add a -8 switch to syslogd to prevent it from mangling 8-bit data.


176427 20-Feb-2008 dwmalone

Two no-op fixes to improve corretness of syslogd code:

1) Use [AP]F_LOCAL rather than [AP]F_UNIX.
2) When copying a pipe's name, use f->f_un.f_pipe.f_pname, not f->f_un.f_fname.

PR: 20889
Submitted by: Damieon Stark
PR: 116642
Submitted by: Jim Pirzyk
Reviewed by: md5


174533 11-Dec-2007 obrien

+ Open ctty in non-blocking mode to avoid hangs during open and close(waiting
for the port to drain).
+ Handle "*" as a priority properly.
+ Test what is free'ed.
+ Dynamically determine length vs. hardcoding it.
+ Free the previous message buffer (f_prevline) only after logging all the
messages and just before the process exit. Also check f_prevline for NULL
before using it.
+ The time displayed is not synchornized with the other log destinations.
+ Fix a comment.

Obtained from: Juniper Networks


174316 05-Dec-2007 obrien

style(9)


163255 12-Oct-2006 trhodes

Mark up keywords with .Cm.

PR: 95039
Sumitted by: SeaD (older version)
Reviewed by: ru


162806 29-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


162805 29-Sep-2006 ru

Sync usage() with manpage's SYNOPSIS.


160753 27-Jul-2006 yar

Obey MK_INET6_SUPPORT.


157821 17-Apr-2006 julian

Add the ability to log to an arbitrary udp port as well as the
standard syslog port. This allows syslog to easily export lines of interest to
an external logging system.


157311 30-Mar-2006 csjp

Currently, if writing out a log entry fails, we unlink that log entry from our
internal list of logfiles. So if writev(2) fails for potentially transient
errors like ENOSPC, syslogd requires a restart, even if the filesystem has
purged.

This change allows syslogd to ignore ENOSPC space errors, so that when the
filesystem is cleaned up, syslogd will automatically start logging again
without requiring the reset. This makes syslogd(8) a bit more reliable.

MFC after: 1 week


156339 06-Mar-2006 pjd

By default (for security reasons) syslogd(8) doesn't create log files
when they don't exist, but sometimes its quite useful (eg. we use
non-standard log files and memory backed /var/, which is populated on
boot).

Add -C option which tells syslogd(8) to create log files if they don't
exist.

Glanced at by: phk
MFC after: 3 days


155954 23-Feb-2006 julian

Fix typo


151420 17-Oct-2005 imp

style(9) nitlet:

foo() {
}

to

foo()
{
}


150690 28-Sep-2005 cognet

setsockopt() will return -1 on error, not 0.

Pointy hat to: Jeremie Le Hen


150689 28-Sep-2005 cognet

Use SO_REUSEADDR on the socket, to make the use of syslogd in jails easier.

Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie le-hen org>


149425 24-Aug-2005 pjd

Use pidfile(3) in syslogd(8).


148580 31-Jul-2005 keramida

Fix all the spelling mistakes I could find in the man pages for words
that have at least 3 characters.

MFC after: 1 week
Thanks to: Music band ``Chingon''
for keeping me company while searching for these.


146414 19-May-2005 csjp

Add cases for ENOBUFS and ENETDOWN. We need to make sure that we
catch all transient errors. This fixes situations where transient
error conditions such as network interfaces losing carrier signals
or the system running out of mbufs would result in the permanent
removal of forwarding syslog messages.

MFC after: 1 week


146187 13-May-2005 ume

NI_WITHSCOPEID cleanup. Neither RFC 2553 nor RFC 3493 defines
NI_WITHSCOPEID, and our getaddrinfo(3) does nothing special
for it, now.


144984 13-Apr-2005 hrs

Add -S option which allows to change the pathname of the privileged
socket /var/run/logpriv.

Reviewed by: glebius and kensmith
MFC after: 2 days


144218 28-Mar-2005 glebius

Check that supplied facility is not bigger than LOG_NFACILITIES.

PR: bin/79260
Submitted by: Shuichi KITAGUCHI


141851 13-Feb-2005 ru

Expand contractions.


141846 13-Feb-2005 ru

Expand *n't contractions.


140442 18-Jan-2005 ru

Sort sections.


140063 11-Jan-2005 ru

Scheduled mdoc(7) sweep.


139384 28-Dec-2004 dwmalone

Allow ':' and '%' in hostname specifications so that we can specify IPv6
addresses and scope IDs.

MFC after: 3 weeks


139381 28-Dec-2004 dwmalone

Some syslog messages delimit the program tag with whitespace rather
than a colon, so don't allow whitespace in program names. To be
consistent with hostnames, don't allow whitespace in the program
name specifiers in syslog.conf either.

(The first change is by Markus from the PR, the second is mine.)

PR: 68691
Submitted by: Markus Oestreicher <m.oe@x-trader.de>
MFC after: 3 weeks


137858 18-Nov-2004 glebius

s/priveleged/privileged/


137857 18-Nov-2004 keramida

Fix a minor comment typo: priveleged = privileged.


137580 11-Nov-2004 ru

Really revert the whitespace change to usage().


137578 11-Nov-2004 glebius

Change TABs back to spaces in usage string constants.

Requested by: ru


137569 11-Nov-2004 glebius

Whitespace.

Approved by: cvs diff -b


137568 11-Nov-2004 glebius

Double receive buffer size on sockets.

PR: bin/72366
Ok'd by: dwmalone
Approved by: julian (mentor)
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 month


137437 09-Nov-2004 kensmith

Bump document date.

Noticed by: trhodes
Pointy hat: kensmith
MFC after: 1 week


137436 09-Nov-2004 kensmith

Add newsyslog(8) to the "See Also" section.

MFC after: 1 week


137233 04-Nov-2004 glebius

Protect against local flooder of /var/run/log. Do not loop forever in
syslog(3) if we are a priveleged program (sshd, su, etc.).

- Make syslogd open an additional socket /var/run/logpriv, with 0600
permissions.
- In libc, try to use this socket.
- Do not loop forever if we are using this socket (partial backout of 1.31)

Reviewed by: dwmalone, Andrea Campi <andrea webcom it>
Approved by: julian (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month


137232 04-Nov-2004 glebius

- Use stailqueue for sockets instead of socket buffer. Thus
remove limit for 20 sockets.
- Add possibility to specify file mode for sockets created with '-l'.
- Check that socket name in '-l' is absolute.

Reviewed by: dwmalone, Andrea Campi <andrea webcom it>
Approved by: julian (mentor)


133249 07-Aug-2004 imp

Per letter dated July 22, 1999 remove 3rd clause of Berkeley derived software
(with permission of addtional copyright holders where appropriate)


131591 04-Jul-2004 cperciva

Fix dofsync() declaration.

Pointed out by: dwmalone


131589 04-Jul-2004 cperciva

Where syslogd would have fsync()ed a file in the past, instead set a flag
FFLAG_NEEDSYNC and fsync the file when select() next returns zero. This
dramatically speeds up the process of logging large amounts of data, while
leaving the essential semantics (that data can be expected to be on disk
if we crash) unchanged.

In my tests, this speeds up the rc phase of booting by 18-20%. [1]

YES PLEASE! by: phk [1]


131531 03-Jul-2004 ru

Eliminated double whitespace.


131500 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


129867 30-May-2004 dwmalone

Also terminate program names if we hit a '/' - this is to be slightly
more friendly to postfix log messages.

PR: 50912
Submitted by: Stanislav Lapshansky <slapsh@slapsh.pp.ru>


129865 30-May-2004 dwmalone

A log file name may now be prefixed by a '-' if it should not be
explicitly fsynced after kernel messages are logged. This option
should be syntax compatible with a similar option in Linux syslogd.

I've made some small changes to Pekka's patch, hoepfully I haven't
goofed anything.

PR: 66790
Submitted by: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Obtained from: Martin Schulze's syslogd
MFC after: 1 month


129855 30-May-2004 dwmalone

Try to be more careful about using using the file descriptor f_file.
Syslogd should ensure that f_file is a valid file descriptor when
f_type is FILE, CONSOLE, TTY and for a PIPE where f_pid > 0. If the
descriptor is closed/invalid then the type should be set to UNUSED
or the pid should be set to 0.

To this end:
1) Don't close(f->f_file) if we can't send a message to a remote
host because the file descriptor used for remote logging is
stored in finet, not in f->f_file. f->f_file is probably
uninitialised, so I guess we usually end up closing fd 0.
2) Don't close PIPE file descriptors if they are invalid.
3) If the call to p_open fails, don't set the pid.

The OpenBSD patches in this area set f_file to -1 after the fd is
closed and then avoids calling close if f_file < 0. I haven't done
this, but it might be a good idea too.

Inspired by: PR 67139/OpenBSD


129854 29-May-2004 dwmalone

Some string fixes.
1) Use strncpy on strings out of utmp.
2) Avoid running off the start of one string while removing white space.
(I've used slightly different code to OpenBSD here.)
3) Ignore trailing spaces in the priority.

PR: 67139
Submitted by: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org.cn>
Obtained from: OpenBSD


129853 29-May-2004 dwmalone

Exit with a warning if the path to one of the logging sockets is
too long, rather than silently truncating them.

PR: 67139
Inspired by: OpenBSD


129852 29-May-2004 dwmalone

Fix some bugs that don't manifest themselves in practice.

1) Don't check for getopt returning '?', we have a default case.
2) Check if the priority is LOG_KERN correctly - in practice
LOG_KERN is 0, so it makes no difference. OpenBSD fixed a
different nearby bug that we don't have 'cos our definition
of LOG_MAKEPRI is different to OpenBSD's.

Copy a comment from OpenBSD, observing that LOG_KERN is 0.

Inspired by PR: 67139


129851 29-May-2004 dwmalone

Update a couple of comments.

PR: 67139
Submitted by: Xin LI <[3]delphij@FreeBSD.org.cn>
Obtained from: OpenBSD


129756 26-May-2004 dwmalone

Silence some constness and printf type warnings. Most of the
const fixes are ugly 'cos the types in an iovec aren't quite
right for a writev.


125503 05-Feb-2004 ru

Fixed style of DPADD and LDADD assignments as per style.Makefile(5).


125271 31-Jan-2004 iedowse

Use strtol to parse the <%d> tags in printline() and printsys().
Sort local variables declarations in these functions.

Submitted by: bde


124992 26-Jan-2004 iedowse

Be much more strict about parsing tagged log messages from /dev/klog;
if the line doesn't match ^<%d>, then treat it as a regular kernel
printf line. Previously if a kernel printf message started with "<"
it would be interpreted as a log message, often with LOG_EMERG
level. This was triggered by some printfs in sys/dev/aic7xxx/, and
can also happen with the partial lines that result if syslogd cannot
keep up with the rate of arrival of kernel messages.

Reviewed by: dwmalone
MFC after: 1 week


122815 16-Nov-2003 dwmalone

logerror is used in syslogd to log errors from syslogd itself. It
is possible for an error to occur while trying to log an error, and
this can result in infinite recursion (or at least until we run out
of stack).

Rather than this, we ignore requests to log an error while logging an
error.

PR: 51253
MFC after: 2 weeks


122814 16-Nov-2003 dwmalone

Remove an argument to printf that is unused.


119893 08-Sep-2003 ru

mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro.


115109 17-May-2003 gshapiro

Avoid a corrupt timestamp on the console

PR: 51587
Submitted by: Dmitry Sivachenko <mitya@cavia.pp.ru>
Approved by: re (rwatson)
MFC after: 3 days


115108 17-May-2003 gshapiro

Avoid code duplication by using libutil's trimdomain() instead of
an incorrect re-implementation.

PR: 52223, 52342
Submitted by: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Approved by: re (bmah/rwatson)
MFC after: 2 days


114676 04-May-2003 gshapiro

Cleanup hostname matching in syslogd:

1. Hostnames were not treated case insensitively in all cases.

2. The method for stripping hostnames when reading the syslog.conf
differed from that when finding the hostname of an incoming request.
This lead to a broken match check. In my case, it meant I had to
have '@scooter.smi.example.com.example.com' to have 'logger.example.com'
properly save messages from 'scooter.smi.sendmail.com'.

3. Add paranoia to cfline() such that it doesn't try to access memory
outside of the bounds of the f_host string.

4. While I am here, get rid of an outdated comment, argv[{0,1,2}] are now
checked for NULL after the strdup() calls.

Reviewed by: dwmalone
MFC after: 1 week


113091 04-Apr-2003 obrien

style.Makefile(5)


111221 21-Feb-2003 thomas

Hostname specifications must allow commas in the value. They are
used to separate multiple host names.

Noted by: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Reviewed by: roberto


110776 13-Feb-2003 thomas

Allow multiple hosts or programs to be named in program
or host specifications, eg:

!foo,bar
*.* /var/log/only_foo_or_bar.log

!-foo,bar
*.* /var/log/all_except_foo_or_bar.log

Reviewed by: roberto
Not objected to by: arch@


108247 24-Dec-2002 trhodes

Various language tweaks.

PR: 45604
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>


107788 12-Dec-2002 ru

Uniformly refer to a file system as "file system".

Approved by: re


107312 27-Nov-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: markup fixes.

Approved by: re


106571 07-Nov-2002 thomas

Factor out the code that determines whether a message must be skipped
as a consequence of a host or program name specification into a common
function, skip_pmessage.

Reviewed by: roberto


106054 27-Oct-2002 wollman

Add used #include <limits.h>.


105393 18-Oct-2002 tjr

Sync usage() with reality and sort it alphabetically.

PR: 42620
Submitted by: Jeff Ito
MFC after: 1 month


105392 18-Oct-2002 tjr

Add -c option to synopsis. Sort it alphabetically, too.


104573 06-Oct-2002 des

Avoid referencing a removed (and freed) queue entry. This partially reverts
revision 1.101 (which did not introduce the bug but made it harder to fix)

PR: misc/40363
Submitted by: David Dunham <dwdunham@isilon.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks


103855 23-Sep-2002 dcs

Introduce to the !program specification a capability similar to the one
that already exists for hosts: being able to specify a section that applies
to every program *except* the one in question.

The normal syntax for program specification is still valid. For the new
capability, one uses:

!-program

Since there is no way to specify a program beginning with a dash in the old
syntax, as it would be interpreted as the case above, the following
alternative syntax to the original capability is provided:

!+program

This shouldn't introduce incompatibilities with any syslogd configuration
in production because -stable's syslogd does not support a dash anywhere in
the program specification.

MFC after: 2 weeks


102940 04-Sep-2002 dwmalone

Make syslogd -u treat "*" as all levels by explictly setting pri_cmp
for it.

While I'm here, add a the ability to say "!level" in a way which
should be compatible with Linux's syslogd.

PR: 28935
No objections: audit
MFC after: 2 weeks


102401 25-Aug-2002 cjc

Don't give up on a remote log host when we get a EHOSTUNREACH or
EHOSTDOWN. These are often transient errors (when the remote host
reboots, temporary network problems, etc.), and we'd rather err on the
side of caution and keep trying send messages that never arrive than
just give up.

Note that this is not an implementation of the "back-off" methods
given in the PR. Those just seem too complicated. Why not just keep
trying each time? Trying and failing doesn't really consume
significantly more resources than if we were successful for each
message.

PR: bin/31029
MFC after: 1 week


100677 25-Jul-2002 robert

When parsing the program name from the incoming log message
from a client, accept all printable characters as being part
of the program name, except ':' and '[', because each is a
possible delimiter.


100662 25-Jul-2002 robert

When reading a program name from the syslog configuration file,
do not stop copying it into a buffer when encountering a
non-alphanumerical character. Only stop at unprintable characters.
This makes syslogd work correctly with executables like `interp.bin',
`httpd_old', etc.

PR: misc/40941
MFC after: 1 week


100505 22-Jul-2002 ume

use IPV6_V6ONLY instead of non standard IPV6_BINDV6ONLY.

MFC after: 1 week


99968 14-Jul-2002 charnier

The .Nm utility


96705 16-May-2002 trhodes

Consistancy check: s/file system/filesystem/g


93080 24-Mar-2002 des

Remove spaces between (void) and function calls. Use TAILQ_FOREACH
instead of hand-rolled equivalent. Add curly braces for symmetry
around else.


93079 24-Mar-2002 des

Parenthesize return values and pull an orphaned { back into the fold.


93078 24-Mar-2002 des

__FBSDID, ANSIfy function definitions, staticize functions and globals,
don't initialize globals to 0, some reindentation of declarations, some
comments added or reworded.


93077 24-Mar-2002 des

Un-__P().


90603 13-Feb-2002 maxim

Remove unnecessary setjmp.h.

Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: ru
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 week


90602 13-Feb-2002 maxim

Unlink all log sockets at startup.

PR: misc/34839
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: ru
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks


89217 10-Jan-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: add missing markup bit.


89162 09-Jan-2002 deischen

Initialze a stack variable with NULL to unbreak buildworld with -Wall.
I don't know about anyone else, but the compiler was always aborting
on this stupid warning, and has been doing so for weeks.


88897 05-Jan-2002 archie

Add a new flag '-c' to disable repeated line compression when the output
is a pipe to another program, or, if specified twice, in all cases.

PR: bin/32420


87524 08-Dec-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: markup nits.


87000 27-Nov-2001 dd

Make the default kernel prefix "kernel:" instead of the boot file,
with the old behavior available via the -o option (it might still be
useful if one has many kernels and cares which messages came from
which). If the boot file is not used as the prefix, it is still
logged once at startup.

This change is prompted by the fact that the boot file is now much
longer ("/boot/kernel/kernel" vs. "/kernel"), which significanlty
bloats the syslogd output.

Reviewed by: peter


86343 14-Nov-2001 ps

If the mask length is zero, there is no need to convert it to a
netmask.

PR: 31947
Submitted by: Aaron Scarisbrick <aaronsca@hotmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week


84168 30-Sep-2001 des

Check the return values from calls to malloc(), calloc(), strdup() etc.

Submitted by: Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>
MFC after: 2 weeks


83402 13-Sep-2001 des

Add a strcasecmp() call I forgot in my hurry to commit the previous fix.
Without this call, the hostname check would in some cases yield false
positives.

Pointed out by: ru


83392 13-Sep-2001 des

The previous commit appeared to just shove the bug under the carpet rather
than really solve it. This approach (inspired by Ruslan's patch) solves
the real problem by stripping the local domain off the host name in the
config line structure.

Also mark a bunch of code sections that either do not check the return value
of a strdup(), malloc() or calloc() call, or do not properly handle a NULL
return.


83388 13-Sep-2001 des

Fix logging from remote hosts, which has been broken since (at least) revision
1.64, i.e. July of last year. Also fix a minor style bug in the same code.

PR: bin/28634
Pointy hat to: dwmalone
Pointed out by: my buggy DSL router's remote logging facility


83326 11-Sep-2001 ru

Fixed the free(3) panic overlooked due to the -Wno-uninitialized.


83245 09-Sep-2001 dd

Use CFLAGS instead of COPTS.


83243 09-Sep-2001 dd

- Silence warnings: apply `const' generously, mark some variables
__unused, and change local variables named `sin' (struct
sockaddr_in) to `sin4'. (`sin' conflicts with the definition of
sin(3), which gcc assumes to be defined even if math.h isn't
included (it's a builtin). This is probably a bug in gcc.)

- Apply WARNS=1. WARNS=2 was not used because this program assigns
string literals to (struct iovec).iov_base for writing, and the only
clean way to silence -Wwrite-strings in that case would be to
strdup() and consequently free() those literals, which I considered
too disruptive.

Reviewed by: bde (partially)


83054 05-Sep-2001 kris

Correct a last minute sizeof() bogon in my previous commit.


82728 01-Sep-2001 dd

Introduce a -b option that allows the user to specify which address to
bind to. This is useful for hosts running jails that need syslog to
maintain an open socket to log to a remote host.

Reviewed by: sheldonh


82724 01-Sep-2001 kris

Fix some unsafe signal handlers, and be careful not to overflow on fd_set.
Fix some string buffer operations.

Based on: OpenBSD
Reviewed by: audit
MFC after: 2 weeks


82470 28-Aug-2001 cjc

Fix some small errors and markup nits.

Approved by: ru
MFC after: 2 days


82442 27-Aug-2001 cjc

Gives syslogd(8) the ability to refresh its idea of the hostname of
the system on which it is running. The hostname is reloaded when
'HUPped' and a log message generated to note a change (before anyone
points it out, this is not an added security feature).

PR: bin/24444
Reviewed by: freebsd-audit
Approved by: ru
MFC after: 2 weeks


82413 27-Aug-2001 dd

Don't make it sound like -A is turning on the default behavior.


81977 20-Aug-2001 brian

Handle snprintf() returning -1.

MFC after: 2 weeks


81462 10-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: join split punctuation to macro calls.


80029 20-Jul-2001 obrien

Perform a major cleanup of the usr.sbin Makefiles.
These are not perfectly in agreement with each other style-wise, but they
are orders of orders of magnitude more consistent style-wise than before.


80022 20-Jul-2001 obrien

Remove GCC'isms in CFLAGS.


80011 19-Jul-2001 ume

- `-a' option for IPv6 was not working correctly.
- Lose any stray host bits that a user may have entered when providing
a network number and netmask to the `-a' option for IPv6. This is
corresponding to 1.79 that is for IPv4 only.

MFC after: 1 week


79862 18-Jul-2001 mike

Document the fact that syslogd(8) requires logs files to be created
before it will start logging to them.

PR: 27088
Approved by: des
MFC after: 10 days


79755 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


79537 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


79454 09-Jul-2001 dd

mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh.


79089 02-Jul-2001 cjc

Lose any stray host bits that a user may have entered when providing
a network number and netmask to the '-a' option.

Approved by: ru
MFC after: 1 week


77809 06-Jun-2001 ru

Note that -a is ignored if -s is also specified.


76944 21-May-2001 dwmalone

Fix constness warning introduced in syslog.h 1.21.


76672 16-May-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: uppercase abbreviations in revision 1.34.


76431 10-May-2001 dwmalone

Add the ability to specify alternate PID file for syslogd.

PR: 25784
Submitted by: Jon Villarreal <jonv@ivmg.net>
Reviewed by: iedowse


75169 04-Apr-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed hard sentence break.


74875 27-Mar-2001 cwt

Document LOG_CONSOLE.


74816 26-Mar-2001 ru

- Backout botched attempt to introduce MANSECT feature.
- MAN[1-9] -> MAN.


74053 09-Mar-2001 brian

MAXHOSTNAMELEN includes the NUL


73077 26-Feb-2001 ru

Prepare for mdocNG.


72009 04-Feb-2001 dwmalone

This seems to stop syslog console messages looping. The problem
is that LOG_FAC doesn't do quite what you think it does.

PR: 24704


71898 01-Feb-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.


70403 27-Dec-2000 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


70146 18-Dec-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: document IPv6 options in the SYNOPSIS.


70099 16-Dec-2000 ume

IPv6 support for syslogd.

Reviewed by: freebsd-current
Obtained from: NetBSD


69175 25-Nov-2000 phk

Add the "LOG_CONSOLE" facility and tell syslogd to not log it on
console devices.


68965 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


67249 17-Oct-2000 dwmalone

Syslogd normally converts messages of facility kern to facility
user unless they come directly from the kernel. Document this and
add a flag to syslogd which prevents this conversion.

Sort getopt args while I'm at it.

PR: 21788
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>


67248 17-Oct-2000 dwmalone

Fix spelling of comparison.


66310 23-Sep-2000 alfred

Add forgotten -n option to SYNOPSIS section

Submitted by: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>


66080 19-Sep-2000 imp

Fix unexploitable off by one error as mentioned on Bugtraq.


64318 07-Aug-2000 ps

Update the usage string to reflect -n as an option.


64317 07-Aug-2000 ps

Actually make syslogd understand the new -n option by putting it
in getopt.

Submitted by: Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>


64195 03-Aug-2000 dwmalone

Sort cases in getopt switch statement.
Remove extra parens from my host selection commit.
Add white space after if, while, for and switch.
Get rid of braces around a single statement if.

There should be no functional changes in this commit.

Reviewed by: sheldonh


64194 03-Aug-2000 dwmalone

Replace two calls to strlen+calloc+strcpy with strdup.

Reviewed by: sheldonh


63997 29-Jul-2000 ps

Change option -r to -n inline with conventions we use elsewhere.
I guess it serves me right for using a patch directly from Jan
Koum. :)

Requested by: many


63990 29-Jul-2000 ps

Add option 'r' to syslogd which will disable dns queries for every
request. This is useful when you have a large site pointed at a
single syslog server.

Submitted by: Jan Koum <jkb@yahoo-inc.com>


63795 24-Jul-2000 dwmalone

Allow syslogd to select messages based on the originating host in
a similar way to the way it can select messages from a given program.

Lines beginning with "+hostname" or "#+hostname" select messaes
from that hostname and lines beginning with "-hostname" or "#-hostname"
match messages not from that hostname.

There are some significant style issues left in the original program
selection code and the man page. This should be cleared up in some
later commits.

Reviewed by: sheldonh
Based on an original patch by: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Man page stylist: sheldonh


61384 08-Jun-2000 kris

Prevent a non-exploitable remote buffer overflow.

Reported by: twitch <twitch@vicar.org>
Submitted by: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Reviewed by: security-officer


60938 26-May-2000 jake

Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by: msmith and others


60833 23-May-2000 jake

Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: mdodd


59341 18-Apr-2000 ache

Enable 8bit chars excepting high controls


57673 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


57609 29-Feb-2000 joerg

Fix a nit in my previous commit: make SIGHUP and SIGCHLD restartable
as they ought to be. The description of SA_RESTART was a little
unobvious to me in the man page, so i missed it. Thanks to Bruce for
spotting this.

Submitted by: bde


57558 28-Feb-2000 joerg

Fix a serious bug in syslogd regarding the handling of pipes. The bug
would cause syslogd to eventually kill innocent processes in the
system over time (note: not `could' but `would'). Many thanks to my
colleague Mirko for digging into the kernel structures and providing
me with the debugging framework to find out about the nature of this
bug (and to isolate that syslogd was the culprit) in a rather large
set of distributed machines at client sites where this happened
occasionally.

Whenever a child process was no longer responsive, or when syslogd
receives a SIGHUP so it closes all its logging file descriptors, for
any descriptor that refers to a pipe syslogd enters the data about the
old logging child process into a `dead queue', where it is being
removed from (and the status of the dead kitten being fetched) upon
receipt of a SIGCHLD. However, there's a high probability that the
SIGCHLD already arrives before the child's data are actually entered
into the dead queue inside the SIGHUP handler, so the SIGCHLD handler
has nothing to fetch and remove and simply continues. Whenever this
happens, the process'es data remain on the dead queue forever, and
since domark() tried to get rid of totally unresponsive children by
first sending a SIGTERM and later a SIGKILL, it was only a matter of
time until the system had recycled enough PIDs so an innocent process
got shot to death.

Fix the race by masking SIGHUP and SIGCHLD from both handlers mutually.

Add additional bandaids ``just in case'', i. e. don't enter a process
into the dead queue if we can't signal it (this should only happen in
case it is already dead by that time so we can fetch the status
immediately instead of deferring this to the SIGCHLD handler); for the
kill(2) inside domark(), check for an error status (/* Can't happen */
:) and remove it from the dead queue in this case (which if it would
have been there in the first place would have reduced the problem to a
statistically minimal likelihood so i certainly would never have
noticed the bug at all :).

Mirko also reviewed the fix in priciple (mutual blocking of both
signals inside the handlers), but not the actual code.

Reviewed by: Mirko Kaffka <mirko@interface-business.de>
Approved by: jkh


57204 14-Feb-2000 peter

s|/dev/log|/var/run/log|


56485 23-Jan-2000 charnier

Add section number to .Xr. Use .Pa for filenames.
fprintf -> warnx.


55974 14-Jan-2000 des

Do this the Right Way (tm), i.e. use shutdown() instead of fooling around
with the size of the receive buffer.

Pointed out by: ru


55972 14-Jan-2000 des

Reflect the change in secure mode semantics, and document fascist mode
properly.


55971 14-Jan-2000 des

Slight change of secure mode semantics: instead of reading (and counting)
vogons, set the size of the receive buffer to 1 and rely on the kernel to
simply drop incoming packets. The logging code was buggy anyway.

Use socklen_t instead of int for the length argument to recvfrom.

Add a 'continue' at the end of a loop for ANSI conformance.


55906 13-Jan-2000 ru

Fix page fault in -vv mode.

PR: 16098
Submitted by: Alan.Judge@indigo.ie
Reviewed by: ru


50479 28-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


50126 21-Aug-1999 green

This is the addition of a syslog(3) security.* top-level category. This
should be used from now on for anything security but not auth-related.
Included are updates for all relevant manpages and also to /etc files,
creating a new /var/log/security. Nothing in the system logs to
/var/log/security yet as of the time of this commit.

Reviewed by: rgrimes, imp, chris


49940 17-Aug-1999 brian

Make hostname comparisons case insensitive


46559 06-May-1999 dt

readklog(): rename variable 'l' to 'len', to avoid possible confusion with 'i'
and '1'.

Requested by: mckay


46428 04-May-1999 des

Is there a limit to how stupid I can get?


46324 02-May-1999 dt

Little fix in previous: watch NUL-termination.


46299 02-May-1999 dt

Fight with false newlines in kernel message logs. Output a line into log only
after we read a newline, or we have nothing to read from /dev/klog. Read
/dev/klog in non-blocking mode.


46200 30-Apr-1999 des

Implement fascist mode (do not open a datagram socket at all).


42154 29-Dec-1998 cwt

Ensure a terminating null when processing hostname strings from
arbitrary sources.
Obtained from: OpenBSD


42148 29-Dec-1998 cwt

Accept "!*" as a valid all-programs tag line as documented.
PR: 8447
Submitted by: Gaspar Chilingarov <nightmar@lemming.acc.am>


42114 28-Dec-1998 cwt

Block SIGHUP during call to gethostbyaddr().
PR: 5548
Reviewed by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Obtained from: OpenBSD


41498 04-Dec-1998 jkh

Allow either tabs or spaces in configuration files.

PR: 8762
Submitted by: Igor Roshchin <str@giganda.komkon.org>


40930 05-Nov-1998 dg

When warning about discarding packets in secure mode, include the IP
address of the most recent offender.


38547 25-Aug-1998 julian

Submitted by: archie@whistle.com

quieten cc -Wall


37886 27-Jul-1998 phk

Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com added two (very interesting) options to syslogd for
-current (Thanks Harald). However, on my attempt to try this on -STABLE,
I found that when forwarding to another host the actual messages gets lost.
This is due to a wrong index because when the -v option was added, the
indexes shifted one place.

PR: 7407
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>


37820 22-Jul-1998 phk

Add -u, -v and -vv options to syslogd, this improves the control and
logging verbosity about facility & priority levels.
PR: 7278
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>


37450 06-Jul-1998 bde

Fixed printf format errors.


37344 02-Jul-1998 guido

Fix off by 1 error.


37209 27-Jun-1998 steve

Note in log file if messages are being forwarded from a
remote machine.

PR: 7055
Submitted by: Edwin Groothus <edwin@nwm.wan.philips.com>


37156 25-Jun-1998 guido

Implement new argument -l (OpenBSD has -a but we already use that).
This allows one to specify additional sockets in the unix domain
that syslogd listens to. Its primary use is to create log sockets in
chroot environments.
Obtained from:OpenBSD (with a bug fixed d


37145 24-Jun-1998 julian

Reviewed by: guido@mouse.gvr.org
Submitted by: Archie@whistle.com
redo the last patch to allow differentiated kernel logging in
a much better way.


36837 10-Jun-1998 julian

Allow syslogd to separate out kernel log messages with a known
category.
e.g. separate out ipfw entries to a separate file.

Reviewed by: (briefly) phk
Submitted by: archie@whistle.com
Obtained from: Whistle source tree


36184 19-May-1998 phk

Remove a bogus dependency on the size of the inkernel msgbuf.
This change is likely to introduce a few linebreaks in the boot
messages, but that is not easy to solve without breaking syslogd
semantics. Maybe the right fix is to return an integral number
of lines from the kernel driver.

Noticed by: dg


35819 07-May-1998 brian

Make syslogd function in non-secure mode.
Log the correct ^2 packet as per the last commit comment.


35428 24-Apr-1998 phk

Augment the last change after some deliberation with rgrimes & peter.
It is important that we keep the ability to send packets to a remote
server and that the packets come from our well-known port, also in
that case.

Reviewed by: peter, rgrimes.


35382 22-Apr-1998 phk

Even with '-s', syslogd still creates an AF_INET socket, although
it is not bind(2)ed.

PR: 6366
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@dt.dk>


33921 28-Feb-1998 jraynard

Don't assume sigset_t and int are equivalent. Also, get
sigprocmask arguments the right way round.


30603 20-Oct-1997 charnier

Cosmetic in usage string.


30184 06-Oct-1997 joerg

Documentation for the LOG_NTP facility. While i was at it, added a
bit of a warning about not all systems providing for the same set of
syslog facilities.


29623 19-Sep-1997 brian

Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() most of the time.
Obtained from: OpenBSD

Make usage() consistent with man page.


29376 14-Sep-1997 joerg

Explain a little more about the piping feature.
PR: 4122


25437 03-May-1997 joerg

Nobody ever seemed to be interested in reviewing these changes, and i
found that my syslogd is now running them for several months...

Add an option to syslogd to restrict the IP addresses that are allowed
to log to this syslogd. It's too late to develop the inter-syslogd
communications protocol mentioned in the BUGS section, some 10 years
too late. Thus, restricting the IP address range is about the most
effective change we can do if we want to allow incoming syslog
messages at all.

IMHO, we should encourage the system administrators to use this option,
and thus provide a knob in /etc/rc.* for it, defaulting to -a 127.0.0.1/32
(just as a hint about the usage).

Please state opinions about whether to merge this change into 2.2 or
not (i've got it running on RELENG_2_2 anyway).


25276 29-Apr-1997 jmg

add an Id line, minor mdoc fix ups

add ftp to list of facilities in syslog.conf
Closes PR#3389
Submitted-by: Pius Fischer


25155 26-Apr-1997 pst

Whoops -- code inspection showed I forgot to clean up getopt string


25154 26-Apr-1997 pst

Secure mode (-s) incorrectly disabled both sending and receiving of syslog
packets over UDP. Secure boxes should still be able to send packets.


24428 31-Mar-1997 imp

compare return value from getopt against -1 rather than EOF, per the final
posix standard on the topic.


23868 14-Mar-1997 joerg

Save and restore the state of the variable Initialized inside die().
Otherwise, the shutdown message will print out with 15 NUL bytes in
front, due to a missing timestamp.


23004 22-Feb-1997 mpp

Typo police.


22997 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


22984 22-Feb-1997 joerg

The "burn-in" phase has finished: this set of patches seems to run
stable now at a customer's site.

Finally add the ability to syslogd to pipe particular messages through
an arbitrary filtering command. Idea stolen from IRIX.

This code is courtesy of the interface business GmbH, Dresden.

Comment about whether to also merge this into 2.2 or not, please.

Reviewed by: (long ago) peter


21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


21248 03-Jan-1997 jkh

Unlink LogName before attempting to open it. Since we now have a lovely
bug in syslogd which causes it to die after random amounts of time (widely
reported), this at least allows the administrator to easily restart it
without wondering why it simply exits again each time.


20290 10-Dec-1996 peter

Revert part of the previous change. syslogd (when logging to ttys)
has always held an open file descriptor. This allowed logging to
spare virtual consoles and being able to switch to them.

My previous change removed this since all writes were done with ttymsg()
which opens it's own fd, and hence syslogd didn't need it's own fd to
send messages on... but this caused an unexpected behavior change.

This should close PR#2176


19963 26-Nov-1996 peter

Don't close f->f_file on F_TTY types on error returns from ttymsg() since
it wasn't open in the first place..


19962 26-Nov-1996 peter

Make the handling of the /dev/ prefix for tty names more consistant.
ttymsg() insists on them not being there.

Also, since ttymsg() opens the tty "on demand", don't keep an fd open
ourselves. This would interfere with HUPCL etc.

This should close PR#2103 from <xaa@stack.nl>


19854 18-Nov-1996 peter

put on my flame resistant suit and tempt fate by attempting to fix some of
the races in my previous commits here, and fix some other problems with
syslogd as well.

- if the child process exited early (eg: could not bind to the socket),
the boot process would hang for 30 seconds. The parent was not noticing
that the child had exited. (my fault)
- when writing to tty devices, instead of treating them like files that
need \r\n instead of \n, actually use ttymsg() which has specific code
intended to write to potentially blocking ttys safely. I had a machine
lock up last night because /dev/console on a serial port got flow control
blocked. Setting comcontrol drainwait fixed everything but syslogd which
was going into a spin trying to write to the console and completely
ignoreing everything else.
- fix a couple of nonsensical bits of code while here.. eg: wait3 takes
a pointer to an int. There is no sense in declaring it as 'union wait',
then casting the pointer to (int *), then forgetting about it.


19224 28-Oct-1996 joerg

Back out the entire change from rev 1.11 of syslogd.c. It was bogus.
Correct the man page to reflect the new reality.


19137 23-Oct-1996 julian

Reviewed by: various (mailing list feedback)
Submitted by: whistle communications

move the socket from /dev to /var/run by default
TRANSITIONALLY make syslog add a symlink..
I PROMISE I'll remove that as soon as I have the makefiles etc fixed as well.


18710 05-Oct-1996 peter

syslogd has always bugged me with it's async startup at boot time.
For me, more often than not, the backgrounded syslogd daemon is not
yet ready to process log messages before other things (such as named)
want to log a heap of them. It seems that it's the O_SYNC writes of
the stuff coming in from /dev/klog that's the slowdown.

Anyway, instead of using the libc daemon, roll a modified version. This
one has a timeout. The child will wait for either the timeout to expire
or the child process to signal it to let it know that it's "ready" and
the /dev/log socket is set up and active, so it's safe to continue the
boot. It adds a small fraction of a second pause to the boot time, but on
the other hand the overall boot time is *quicker* since the disk is not
being thrashed while the log messages are getting written out synchronously
one by one while other daemons are loading in parallel.

The timeout is in case the child segfaults or something before becoming
fully operational.


18523 27-Sep-1996 pst

Add info field.
Closes pr docs/1679.


17245 22-Jul-1996 pst

Bring in some fixes from NetBSD and re-hack our syslogd to be option-compatible
with theirs (change the -I option to -s (but leave -I in for backwards compat.)
Also eliminate an make sane some magic numbers, and fix a small bug where we'd
send to an unopened socket.

Reviewed by: wollman
Obtained from: NetBSD


15829 20-May-1996 wollman

Correct synopsis (-d, -I options were missing because -mdoc mistook
the dI in `.Op Fl dI' for the name of an internal mdoc command).


12302 14-Nov-1995 peter

With the recent 'make install' change in the kernel build makefiles, an
`interesting' feature of syslogd turned up. It calls getbootfile() for each
log entry. Since the kernel makefile now changes kern.bootfile when doing
a 'make install', it's quite startling to see the syslog lines change.

This change makes it call getbootfile() once at startup and cache it,
saving a syscall per loop, and keeping something a little more asthetically
pleasing in /var/log/messages...


11448 12-Oct-1995 wollman

Add a command-line option `-I' to disable logging from UDP.
Document `-d' and `-I'. Add a BUGS section noting that
logging from UDP is an unauthenticated remote disk-filling service,
and probably should be disabled by default in the absence of some sort
of authentication.


10674 11-Sep-1995 paul

Remove unconditional unlink at startup and conditionalised the unlink at exit
so that it only unlinks the file if syslogd knows it created it.

If the path specified for the socket already exists then syslogd
will now exit with an "address already in use" error which is more
sensible than blindly unlinking the existing filename. This stops
syslogd -d foo/bar from unlinking foo/bar if it's a real file.


10174 23-Aug-1995 pst

Fix up warning about const being lost.


8857 30-May-1995 rgrimes

Remove trailing whitespace.


5367 04-Jan-1995 jkh

Updates from Peter da Silva to match the recent syslogd changes.
Submitted by: pds


5278 29-Dec-1994 wollman

Extend syslogd to allow selection of log destinations by program.
Use getbootfile() to determine the kernel name.

Submitted by: Peter da Silva


1863 05-Aug-1994 wollman

Get rid of update. Make man page installation work with our scheme
(and rename a few in the process).


1856 05-Aug-1994 dg

Converted 'vmunix' to 'kernel'.


1554 26-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1553,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.