The FreeBSD syslogd has more priority matching features and can also
group rules per program/hostname logging. The sysklogd project does
not yet support this, so that is removed and instead the syntax and
examples are better described.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch replaces the original man pages by Greg and Martin, that were
both licensed under the GNU GPL, with 3-clause BSD licensed versions of
the same man pages from FreeBSD.
- syslogd.8 FreeBSD Subversion r335862
- syslog.conf.5 FreeBSD Subversion r314436
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch removes one of the traditionally key pieces of the sysklogd
project, klogd. Now that syslogd performs logging of kernel messages
we no longer require a separate daemon for that.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch changes the syntax for per-rule log rotation and makes it
possible to have enable log rotation and RFC5424 output formatting.
The new syntax looks like this:
EXPR ACTION ;OPT,OPT,...
Example:
*.notice -/var/log/messages ;rotate=1M:5,RFC5424
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
- Major cleanup, simplifications, grammar corrections
- Remove inappropriate sections
- Update syntax and add tables for facility and priority
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Emacs is by default fooled into defaulting to conf-file-mode for
syslog.conf.5, so we add hinting to all man pages for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This applies to both the command line '-b SIZE' option and the
optional per log file setting. Modifiers supported are: k, M, G
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
- Relocate all source files to src/ and manual pages to man/
- Replace static Makefile with GNU configure and build system
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
