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2021-09-03Use a define for the iov array size in syslogd. This is betterAlexander Bluhm
than passing the magic number 6 around and checking at runtime whether its fits. OK deraadt@ martijn@ mvs@
2021-07-14Remove unneeded calls to tls_init(3)kn
As per the manual and lib/libtls/tls.c revision 1.79 from 2018 "Automatically handle library initialisation for libtls." initialisation is handled automatically by other tls_*(3) functions. Remove explicit tls_init() calls from base to not give the impression of it being needed. Feedback tb OK Tests mestre
2021-07-12Change the error reporting pattern throughout the tree when unveilBob Beck
fails to report the path that the failure occured on. Suggested by deraadt@ after some tech discussion. Work done and verified by Ashton Fagg <ashton@fagg.id.au> ok deraadt@ semarie@ claudio@
2021-03-09Early daemons like dhcpleased(8), slaacd(8), unwind(8), resolvd(8)Alexander Bluhm
are started before syslogd(8). This resulted in ugly sendsyslog(2) dropped logs and the real message was lost. Create a temporary stash for log messages within the kernel. It has a limited size of 100 messages, and each message is truncated to 8192 bytes. When the stash is exhausted, the well-known dropped message is generated with a counter. After syslogd(8) has setup everything, it sends a debug line through libc to flush the kernel stash. Then syslogd receives all messages from the kernel before the usual logs. OK deraadt@ visa@
2020-09-16close all fds > STDERR_FILENO before executing the pipe program.Martijn van Duren
OK bluhm@
2020-09-14Established TCP and TLS sockets of syslogd did stay open foreverAlexander Bluhm
if a client aborted the connection silently. As syslogd does not write anything into incoming connections, it will not recognize failure. Setting TCP keep alive on the listen socket does prevent that for accecpted sockets. Note that outgoing connections do not need it as syslogd will write data into them. noticed by dhill@; OK millert@ beck@ deraadt@
2020-05-25When DNS lookup of an UDP loghost failed, syslogd(8) did close theAlexander Bluhm
UDP sockets for sending messages. Keep the sockets open if the config allows to send UDP. Then they can be used to send if DNS is working during the next SIGHUP. bug reported and fix tested by sven falempin; OK millert@
2019-07-05When syslogd(8) parent process terminates, the file cleanup codeAlexander Bluhm
did not work anymore. unveil(2) prevented removal. Cleaning the UNIX domain sockets is not necessary. They are harmless and unlinked before a new bind. So delete that functionality and convert global to local variables. Providing /var/run/syslog.pid is a common feature that should be kept. A stale pid file is confusing. So add a constant path to unveil(2) to allow pid file removal. OK deraadt@
2019-07-02React properly to the very unlikely cases where snprintf(3) mayAlexander Bluhm
fail. Log the message without formating, that is the best syslogd(8) can do. OK deraadt@
2019-06-28When system calls indicate an error they return -1, not some arbitraryTheo de Raadt
value < 0. errno is only updated in this case. Change all (most?) callers of syscalls to follow this better, and let's see if this strictness helps us in the future.
2019-01-18Increase the socket buffer size for sendsyslog(2) to 1 MB. DuringAlexander Bluhm
bursts it is possible that syslogd(8) cannot process messages fast enough. The larger kernel buffer allows to work them off in more time. Then fewer dropped messages are reported. problem found by millert@; OK claudio@ deraadt@
2019-01-13document how program names are extracted from log linesIngo Schwarze
in order to select syslog.conf(5) line blocks
2019-01-13When parsing log lines in order to select syslog.conf(5) line blocks, supportIngo Schwarze
program names containing period ('.') and underscore ('_') ASCII characters. Missing feature reported by and patch tested by Kawashima underscore James at yahoo dot co dot jp. "Makes sense." deraadt@
2018-11-29Honor SIGINT/QUIT when running in foregroundkn
Allows stopping `syslogd -F' with ^C. OK bluhm
2018-09-27Document how syslogd(8) escapes characters in log lines.Alexander Bluhm
input jmc@; OK sthen@
2018-09-02Document how SIGHUP and log rotation works with syslogd(8). Do notAlexander Bluhm
mention the PID file. While there, use .Nm consistently. wording from schwarze@; deraadt@ cheloha@ millert@ agree
2018-08-31Unsetting Initialized during syslogd die() is a relic from the timeAlexander Bluhm
when we had real signal handlers. But now we use libevent, so remove the old logic. OK deraadt@ millert@
2018-08-07Unveil fits nicely into the syslogd privsep model. Unveiled filesTheo de Raadt
include config file "r", utmp "r", /dev "rw", /bin/sh "x" for running piped commands, and the syslogd binary "x" itself for HUP re-exec upon config loads with changes. Also unveiled in the privsep process are the specific log files being written to. If a config file reload changes no files, the existing privsep process keeps running with unveil's to the relevant files (therefore it can cope with newsyslogd taking files away). If a new config file is loaded which changes the output files, the privsep process is restarted with fork+exec, and installs new unveils as needed. The safety we gain from unveil is that we've pigeonholed the privsep file-writer to exactly the files required. Help from bluhm for some edge cases.
2018-07-23Point to glob in section 7 for the actual list of special characters insteadkn
the C API in section 3. OK millert jmc nicm, "the right idea" deraadt
2018-07-17allow shell globs to match program and hostname selector tags viaDamien Miller
fnmatch(3); ok sthen@ bluhm@
2018-04-26Globally remember the passwd entry for _syslogd. The user id isAlexander Bluhm
used for opening the pipe process. Move the getpwnam() lookup out of the privsep parent loop, so it does not need "getpw" pledge anymore. OK deraadt@
2018-04-08AF_LOCAL was a failed attempt (by POSIX?) to seem less UNIX-specific, butPhilip Guenther
AF_UNIX is both the historical _and_ standard name, so prefer and recommend it in the headers, manpages, and kernel. ok miller@ deraadt@ schwarze@
2018-02-02convert the remaining examples to full sentences;Jason McIntyre
2018-02-01Add an example on how to log messages coming from a given host to aLandry Breuil
specific logfile. ok sthen@ millert@
2018-01-27Add missing `l' prefix to linker flag and markup SIGHUP; ok jmc@anton
2017-11-24Revert my change to ignore EIO errors when writing to log files.Alexander Bluhm
Syslogd continued logging messages to a file that had an EIO error. This could slow down the whole system. File system errors may cause huge delays at every access. This prevented debugging the issue. Now syslogd will log a warning and shut down logging to this file until restart or SIGHUP. OK deraadt@ espie@ millert@
2017-10-23When the partition of /var/log was full, syslogd(8) stopped writingAlexander Bluhm
to files located there. It did this permanently, so cleaning /var without SIGHUP to syslogd did not help. Better retry, write an error message to other log hosts, and write a summary of dropped messages after it works again. OK millert@ friehm@
2017-10-05When syslogd writes some startup errors to stderr or console, theyAlexander Bluhm
never appear in any log file. After initialization, write a summary into log files and to remote log host. So the problem shows up, when someone is looking at the persistent messages. Print the "dropped message" warning in a common function. OK sthen@ millert@
2017-10-05I have touched more than half the source code lines of syslogd(8).Alexander Bluhm
Add my copyright explicitly.
2017-10-02Also ignore "Can't assign requested address" error when sendto(2)Alexander Bluhm
to UDP loghost fails. Otherwise syslogd(8) would no longer send to this destination after the error occured once. tested by Rivo Nurges; OK millert@ benno@ deraadt@
2017-09-27Document how ioctl(2) LIOCSFD on /dev/klog registers a socket pairAlexander Bluhm
to receive sendsyslog(2) messages. discussed with martijn@; OK jmc@ deraadt@
2017-09-17syslogd has special code to report errors before it has beenAlexander Bluhm
initialized. For every message it did reopen the console with file descriptor passing from the privsep parent. Now preopen the console, so writing the message out works in more cases. If the console has been revoked, a reopen via privsep and write again is tried anyway. OK brynet@ deraadt@ jca@
2017-09-17When writing local output, syslogd ignores EAGAIN. UnfortunatelyAlexander Bluhm
it has closed the file descriptor before checking the errno. So f_file contained a bad file descriptor that could be reused at the next open. Keep the file open if errno is EAGAIN. Move the close(2) down where the old file descriptor in f_file is overwritten in all cases. OK deraadt@ jca@
2017-09-12In the default configuration syslogd(8) kept two *:514 UDP socketsAlexander Bluhm
open. These sockets are used for sending UDP packets if there is a UDP loghost in syslog.conf(5). If syslogd is started with -u, they can receive packets, otherwise they are disabled with shutdown(SHUT_RD). In case syslogd does neither send nor receive, close the sockets after reading the configuration file. This gives us a cleaner netstat output, and the ports are not reported by port scanners. This has no security implication. OK benno@ jca@ sthen@ deraadt@
2017-08-08Kernel sendsyslog(2), libc syslog(3), and syslogd(8) restrict andAlexander Bluhm
truncate the length of a syslog message to 8192 bytes. Use one global define LOG_MAXLINE for all of them. OK deraadt@ millert@
2017-07-05Some documentation improvements:Martin Pieuchot
- Fix TLS s/server/client/ - Use 'remote loghost' consistently, even if it's not clear to which endpoint this correspond. - Replace 'forwarding' by 'sending' to remove the ambiguity about the inserted hostname. - Do not use the word 'server' with 'socket' to avoid confusion with a TLS server. - Prefer 'senders' than 'clients' when it comes to spoofing, to reduce one usage of the word 'client. ok jmc@, bluhm@
2017-07-04It does not make sense to use ioctl(FIONREAD) with TLS as libtlsAlexander Bluhm
has already read the buffer from kernel to user land. I have blindly copied this code from libevent for syslogd(8) TLS, remove it together with the bug. It caused hangs in ldapd(8). report, analysis, testing, OK Seiya Kawashima, Robert Klein, gsoares@
2017-04-28When syslogd(8) failed to open a logfile, the error message couldAlexander Bluhm
get lost. Remove log_setdebug() as it adds too much abstraction, use the global variable Started instead. Set the Started value before the init() function. Then errors during config file processing will be logged to the console as Initialize is still 0. This is better than stderr as the latter may be redirected to /dev/null. Print the timestamp and hostname also for direct messages to console, so that they look like all others. bug report jung@; OK benno@
2017-04-25Allow syslogd(8) to listen on multiple addresses for incomming TLSAlexander Bluhm
connections. This expands the feature from UDP and TCP to syslog over TLS. input jmc@; OK millert@
2017-04-17Add syslogd(8) option -r to suppress the summary line for pipe andAlexander Bluhm
remote loghost as they are most commonly used for automated log processing. With -rr the "last message repeated" feature can be disabled completely. OK sthen@ deraadt@ jmc@
2017-04-07Incoming TCP connections from clients fill the files of a log server.Alexander Bluhm
A log client reconnects at every SIGHUP. Write these accept and close messages with debug priority, then they can be turned on in syslog.conf. Default is off. While there, move a debug message and set the priority of the exit message explicitly to error. OK mpf@ millert@
2017-04-06Add the LOG_SYSLOG facility to local messages.Alexander Bluhm
OK millert@
2017-04-05The global variable Startup is not used anymore and can be deleted.Alexander Bluhm
The functionality has moved into log_setdebug(). OK millert@
2017-04-05As we did not have nice log functions before, ttymsg() had to returnAlexander Bluhm
the error string. Log the message when the error happens and make the function void. OK millert@
2017-04-05The function logmsg() was used to generate local messages and toAlexander Bluhm
process incoming messages. Split this functionality into log_info() and logline(). Sort the parameters like they appear in the syslog line. OK millert@
2017-04-05Replace logerror() functions with generic log_warn() from log.c.Alexander Bluhm
Make messages a bit more consistent. Note that the new function supports format strings. Replace some log_debug() with log_warn(). OK millert@
2017-04-05Replace all combinations of logerror() and die() with log.c fatal().Alexander Bluhm
Internally syslogd's fatal() calls die() to do cleanup if necessary. Also replace all err(3) after log_init() with fatal(). OK millert@
2017-04-05Replace logdebug() with generic log_debug() from log.c. ImplementAlexander Bluhm
log_debugadd() to construct debug message incrementally. OK deraadt@
2017-04-05Do not print a warning if closing the control socket fails. ItAlexander Bluhm
cannot happen and there is nothing that could be done about it. OK deraadt@
2017-03-28fix semicolon after if statement in currently uncalled codeJonathan Gray
ok bluhm@ deraadt@
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