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Important information
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The included version of syslogd behaves in a slightly different manner
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to the one in former releases. Please review the following important
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differences:
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* By default the syslog daemon doesn't accept any message from the
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syslog/udp port. To enable this add "-r" to the command-line
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arguments. You _have to_ add this on every host that should run as a
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centralized network log server.
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You also should take a look at other new command-line arguments:
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"-l" and "-s".
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The syslog daemon by default does not forward to a remote host any
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log messages which it received from a remote host. This is an
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attempt to prevent syslog loops. If you desire this behavior the
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-h command-line switch can be used to enable this behavior.
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* Syslogd was designed to strip off the local domain from every
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message that comes from any host in the same domain. Unfortunately
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this feature didn't work in every cases. This is now corrected. So
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you might not get the fqdn anymore.
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If you use any scripts that analyze logfiles, please bare this in
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mind.
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* Syslogd doesn't touch the filemode of any logfile. If it has to
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create one, it will be world-readable. If you do not want this
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(i.e. if auth.* is logged) you have to create the file by hand and
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change permissions.
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* If you notice that some of your programs make heavy use of the
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syslog facility and your disks get loud you might want to turn
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fsync()ing after each line off. But note that in doing so you
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increase the likelihood of lost information in the event of a
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system crash.
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* If you're going to start klogd or syslogd by init(8), you don't have
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to hack the code anymore. Instead add "-n" to the command-line
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arguments.
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* Klogd can now be used to decode EIP addresses if it can determine a
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System.map file (command-line argument "-k"). This is a very useful
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feature if your system crashes, but its usability depends on an
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actual and correct System.map file.
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* Both system utilities now check for and respect the existence of .pid
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files. If the utilities are started by configuration scripts on
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stable systems there is the potential that the process ID numbers of
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the utilities will be identical from one system boot to another.
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This will cause both klogd and syslogd to terminate.
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Both klogd and syslogd will attempt to remove their .pid files when
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they receive termination signals. The difficulty noted above
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typically occurs when a system crash occurs or an uncatchable signal
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(kill -9) is used to stop the daemons.
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The cleanest solution to this problem is to insure that the system
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configuration scripts (rc.*) provide a clean working environment for
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a freshly booted system. As part of the initialization process
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these scripts should remove all old .pid files found in /var/run.
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This will insure that klogd and syslogd start properly even if prior
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executions have been terminated harshly.
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* Large file support, i.e. support to write to log files that are
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larger than 2 GB is not part of syslogd, but a matter of the glibc
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emitting different system calls to the kernel interface. To support
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large files you'll have to compile syslogd with the compiler defines
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commented out in the main Makefile so that glibc adjusts the system
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calls.
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Modifying the kernel console log level
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There are two ways to alter the kernel console log level. This
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setting controls whether log messages from the kernel should appear
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on the system console or not.
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In the past, klogd had to do this with the -c parameter. Using '-c
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4' will set the log level of console messages to 4 and only display
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warnings and errors but not regular debug or information messages.
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This behaviour is deprecated and hencely not enforced anymore via
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the RC script of klogd. Instead sysctl(8) should be used as
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interface to various kernel variables. These can be stored
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non-volatile in /etc/sysctl.conf.
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The prevent the kernel to flood the system console and to achieve
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the same behaviour of '-c 4' simply add the following to the
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configuration file and let sysctl set this kernel parameter upon
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system boot.
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kernel/printk = 4 4 1 7
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Welcome to the sysklogd package for Linux. All the utility
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documentation has now been moved into the man pages. Please review
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these carefully before proceeding.
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Version 1.3 of the package is the culmination of about two years of
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experience and bug reports on the 1.2 version from both the INTERNET
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and our corporate Linux networks. The utilities in this package should
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provide VERY reliable system logging. Klogd and syslogd have both
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been stress tested in kernel development environments where literally
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hundreds of megabytes of kernel messages have been blasted through
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them. If either utility should fail the development team would
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appreciate debug information so that the bug can be reproduced and
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squashed.
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Both utilities (syslogd, klogd) can be either run from init or started
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as part of the rc.* sequence. Caution should be used when starting
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these utilities from init since the default configuration is for both of
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these utilities to auto-background themselves. Depending on the
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version of init being used this could either result in the process
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table being filled or at least 10 copies of the daemon being started.
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If auto-backgrounding is NOT desired the command line option -n should
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be used to disable the auto-fork feature.
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I have found work on the sysklogd package to be an interesting example
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of the powers of the INTERNET. Stephen, Juha, Shane, Martin and
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myself have successfully collaborated on the development of this
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package without ever having met each other, in fact we could pass on
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the street without realizing it. What I have developed is a profound
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respect for the personal capabilities of each one of these
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individuals. Perhaps the greatest `Linux Legacy' will be that its
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development/enhancement is truly an example of the powers of
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international cooperation through the worldwide INTERNET.
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We would be interested in keeping track of any and all bug
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fixes/changes that are made. At the time that work was started on the
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sysklogd package the syslog(d) sources seemed to have fallen into
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neglect. This work started with and continues the believe that it is
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important to maintain consistent standardized system utilities
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sources. Hopefully the Linux community will find these sources to be
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a useful addition to the software gene pool.
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There is a mailing list covering this package and syslog in general.
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The lists address is infodrom-sysklogd@lists.infodrom.org . To subscribe send a
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mail to majordomo@lists.infodrom.org with a line "subscribe infodrom-sysklogd"
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in the message body.
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A second mailing list exists as infodrom-sysklogd-cvs@lists.infodrom.org. Only
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CVS messages and diffs are distributed there. Whenever new code is added to
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sysklogd, CVS generates a mail from these changes which will be sent to
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this list. Discussions will take place on the first list.
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The latest version of this software can be found at:
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http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/download.php3
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Best regards,
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Dr. Wettstein
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Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
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Roger Maris Cancer Center
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Fargo, ND
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greg@wind.enjellic.com
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Stephen Tweedie
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Department of Computer Science
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Edinburgh University, Scotland
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Juha Virtanen
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jiivee@hut.fi
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Shane Alderton
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shane@ion.apana.org.au
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Martin Schulze
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Infodrom Oldenburg
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joey@infodrom.org
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And a number of bug reporters whose contributions cannot be underestimated.
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#+STARTUP: showall
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* TODO
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** sysklogd v2.0
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*** DONE Add support for @host:port, i.e. custom remote port to send to
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*** DONE Add example application, test building and running it from Travis-CI
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*** DONE Check for memory/descriptor leaks, valgrind/Coverity
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Most interesting so far is the -fsanitize=address option to GCC/clang :)
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*** DONE Drop strlcpy() from libsyslog, make built-in? (marked as weak alias)
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*** DONE Document, and add examle of, how to use libsyslog
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*** DONE Separate libsylog.{a,so} and syslog/syslog.h with NetBSD API
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*** DONE Add syslogp() and vsyslogp() to libsyslog
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*** DONE Add support for =/etc/syslog.d/*.conf= to syslogd
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*** DONE Test support of =/etc/syslog.d/*.conf= to syslogd
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*** DONE Test SIGHUP of syslogd
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*** DONE Custom facilities!
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*** DONE Fix option parsing in syslog.conf, e.g. ;RFC5424 and log rotation
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*** DONE Test with/without openlog()
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*** DONE Test custom facilities
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*** DONE Test setlogmask()
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*** DONE Test v1 API, syslogp()
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*** DONE Add RFC5424 parsing of incoming msgs to syslogd
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*** DONE Local `stdout | stdin` unit testing
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*** DONE Rewrite man pages do mandoc format
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