Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:35:11 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: change to syslog to allow specifying prot to send to.. Message-ID: <443310BF.4030600@elischer.org>
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Does anyone think that this would be useful?
the syslog.conf line would look like:
*.* @logger.mynet.com:823
Index: syslogd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/freebsd/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.59.2.28
diff -u -r1.59.2.28 syslogd.c
--- syslogd.c 29 Feb 2004 20:59:19 -0000 1.59.2.28
+++ syslogd.c 5 Apr 2006 00:33:14 -0000
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
struct {
char f_hname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
struct addrinfo *f_addr;
-
+ u_short port;
} f_forw; /* forwarding address */
char f_fname[MAXPATHLEN];
struct {
@@ -1749,14 +1749,30 @@
p++;
switch (*p) {
+ char * tp;
+ char *tp2;
case '@':
- (void)strlcpy(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, ++p,
+ /*
+ * scan forward to see if there is a port defined.
+ */
+ tp2 = NULL;
+ tp = ++p;
+ while (*tp && (*tp++ != ':')) ;
+ if (*tp == ':') {
+ *tp++ = '\0';
+ if (*tp) {
+ tp2 = tp;
+ }
+ }
+
+ (void)strlcpy(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, p,
sizeof(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname));
+ if (tp2) *--tp = ':';
memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
hints.ai_family = family;
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
- error = getaddrinfo(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, "syslog",
&hints,
- &res);
+ error = getaddrinfo(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname,
+ tp2 ? tp2: "syslog", &hints, &res);
if (error) {
logerror(gai_strerror(error));
break;
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