Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:00:35 -0800 (PST) From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/62368: 5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed Message-ID: <200402050200.i1520Zxq009621@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/62368; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org>
To: Erik Kline <kline@netapp.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: conf/62368: 5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:58:59 -0800
--On Wednesday, February 04, 2004 17:24:17 -0800 Erik Kline <kline@netapp.com> wrote:
>> Number: 62368
>> Category: conf
>> Synopsis: 5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed
>
>> Description:
> /etc/syslog.conf contains the following lines at the tail end of the file:
>
> !startslip
> *.* /var/log/slip.log
> !ppp
> *.* /var/log/ppp.log
>
> These don't appear to be syntactically valid. Any entries appended
> after these aren't parsed and processed. CVSup today (04 Feb 2004)
> shows that /usr/src/etc/syslog.conf remains malformed.
man syslog.conf:
Each block of lines is separated from the previous block by a program or
hostname specification. A block will only log messages corresponding to
the most recent program and hostname specifications given. Thus, with a
block which selects `ppp' as the program, directly followed by a block
that selects messages from the hostname `dialhost', the second block will
only log messages from the ppp(8) program on dialhost.
A program specification is a line beginning with `#!prog' or `!prog' (the
former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing
syslog.conf files, for example) and the following blocks will be associ-
ated with calls to syslog(3) from that specific program. A program spec-
ification for `foo' will also match any message logged by the kernel with
the prefix `foo: '. The `#!+prog' or `!+prog' specification works just
like the previous one, and the `#!-prog' or `!-prog' specification will
match any message but the ones from that program. A hostname specifica-
tion of the form `#+hostname' or `+hostname' means the following blocks
will be applied to messages received from the specified hostname. Alter-
natively, the hostname specification `#-hostname' or `-hostname' causes
the following blocks to be applied to messages from any host but the one
specified. If the hostname is given as `@', the local hostname will be
used. A program or hostname specification may be reset by giving the
program or hostname as `*'.
The reason that lines added after that point don't appear to be
parsed or processed is that they apply only to messages from programs
named 'ppp'.
-Pat
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