infodrom/sysklogd
19 years agoPrevent potential buffer overflow in reading messages from the
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:29:03 +0000 (13:29 +0000)]
Prevent potential buffer overflow in reading messages from the
kernel log rinbuffer.

19 years agoDistinguish between MAN_OWNER and MAN_GROUP, introduce MAN_PERMS and
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:04:03 +0000 (11:04 +0000)]
Distinguish between MAN_OWNER and MAN_GROUP, introduce MAN_PERMS and
also $(prefix) for convenience

19 years agoFrom Openwalls: needs to be a USER_PROCESS
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:58:40 +0000 (10:58 +0000)]
From Openwalls: needs to be a USER_PROCESS

19 years agoApplied Openwall paranoia patches to improve crunch_list().
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:39:55 +0000 (10:39 +0000)]
Applied Openwall paranoia patches to improve crunch_list().

19 years agoAdjusted the symbol size since on non-32bit architectures a long may
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:11:03 +0000 (10:11 +0000)]
Adjusted the symbol size since on non-32bit architectures a long may
be longer than 4 bytes

20 years agoAdded Steve
Joey Schulze [Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:07:21 +0000 (16:07 +0000)]
Added Steve

20 years agoPatch by Steve Grubb <linux_4ever@yahoo.com> to correct memory calculation
Joey Schulze [Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:06:16 +0000 (16:06 +0000)]
Patch by Steve Grubb <linux_4ever@yahoo.com> to correct memory calculation

20 years agoAdded a private module.h with extracted data from Linux 2.2 to replace
Joey Schulze [Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:47:08 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
Added a private module.h with extracted data from Linux 2.2 to replace
<linux/module.h> which creates a number parse errors.

20 years agoUpdated the changelog file to reflect most recent changes
Joey Schulze [Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:47:51 +0000 (17:47 +0000)]
Updated the changelog file to reflect most recent changes

20 years agoMoved the installation of the signal handler up a little bit so it
Joey Schulze [Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:26:22 +0000 (10:26 +0000)]
Moved the installation of the signal handler up a little bit so it
guaranteed to be available when the child is forked, hence, fixing a
race condition.  This used to create problems with UML and fast
machines.  Thanks to Jon Burgess <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>

20 years agoImproved documentation
Joey Schulze [Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:51:38 +0000 (02:51 +0000)]
Improved documentation

20 years agoWhoops, looks like O_TRUNC was missing when opening the file,
Joey Schulze [Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:38:18 +0000 (02:38 +0000)]
Whoops, looks like O_TRUNC was missing when opening the file,
increasing the chance of left-overs from older pid contents in the
file.

20 years agoOn heavily loaded systems, some which are probably receiving a lot of
Joey Schulze [Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:29:02 +0000 (23:29 +0000)]
On heavily loaded systems, some which are probably receiving a lot of
syslog traffic through the network, there's a (not well researched)
problem with receiving messages on the syslog UDP port.  For some
reason recvfrom() results in EAGAIN.  See
http://bugs.debian.org/188194 and
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.1/0218.html

20 years agoThere's a problem with including kernel-space header files on the
Joey Schulze [Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:05:39 +0000 (22:05 +0000)]
There's a problem with including kernel-space header files on the
little endian MIPS architecture.  According to Ryan Murray this should
help and also work on all architectures.

20 years agoAdded information about large file support
Joey Schulze [Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:22:23 +0000 (13:22 +0000)]
Added information about large file support

20 years agoImproved patch by Michael Pomraning <mjp@securepipe.com> to reconnect
Joey Schulze [Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:56:01 +0000 (15:56 +0000)]
Improved patch by Michael Pomraning <mjp@securepipe.com> to reconnect
klogd to the logger after it went away, so messages won't get lost if
the logger is already around by trying to reopen the socket in time.

20 years agoApplied patch by Michael Pomraning <mjp@securepipe.com> to reconnect
Joey Schulze [Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:55:04 +0000 (15:55 +0000)]
Applied patch by Michael Pomraning <mjp@securepipe.com> to reconnect
klogd to the logger after it went away.

20 years agoHopefully this version is easier to understand for non-english speakers.
Joey Schulze [Thu, 22 May 2003 19:31:20 +0000 (19:31 +0000)]
Hopefully this version is easier to understand for non-english speakers.

21 years agoGreg Whynott <greg@fqdn.com> informed us about an obsolete URL. I
Joey Schulze [Sat, 5 Apr 2003 06:36:34 +0000 (06:36 +0000)]
Greg Whynott <greg@fqdn.com> informed us about an obsolete URL.  I
found the new location and exchanged it.

22 years agoAdded ftp facility (Debian Bug#100437)
Joey Schulze [Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:00:45 +0000 (12:00 +0000)]
Added ftp facility (Debian Bug#100437)

22 years agoFix typo in syslog.conf(5) (Debian Bug#126899)
Joey Schulze [Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:04:40 +0000 (11:04 +0000)]
Fix typo in syslog.conf(5) (Debian Bug#126899)

22 years agoUpdated documentation to reflect the current location of the mailing
Joey Schulze [Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:49:33 +0000 (19:49 +0000)]
Updated documentation to reflect the current location of the mailing
list and my address.

23 years ago * New upstream source (closes: Bug#87819, Bug#70790, Bug#32580, debian-1.4.1-2
Joey Schulze [Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:00:51 +0000 (23:00 +0000)]
  * New upstream source (closes: Bug#87819, Bug#70790, Bug#32580,
    Bug#62358, Bug#71631)
  * Upstream: Doesn't re-set log-level if not requested (closes:
    Bug#76170, Bug#76170, Bug#85289)
  * Upstream: Ignore zero bytes (closes: Bug#85478, Bug#85478, Bug#41068)
  * Upstream: Corrected documentation for `-s' (closes: Bug#87020)
  * Upstream: test for existence of syslogd-listfiles before calling
    them.  This got lost due to 1.4.0 brokennes which was packaged and
    removed some hours later (closes: Bug#84872, Bug#66712)
  * Applied patch by Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> splitting the package
    into `sysklogd' and `klogd' (closes:Bug#35586, Bug#72043, Bug#74864,
    Bug#72122)
  * Provide / depend on virtual packages system-log-daemon
    and linux-kernel-log-daemon (closes: Bug#67604)
  * Applied patch from Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> to support `-s pattern' in
    syslogd-listfiles
  * Transition to FHS, i.e. /usr/share/doc instead of /usr/doc and
    /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man (closes:  Bug#79250, Bug#80771)
  * Use --exec for stopping services (closes: Bug#76757)
  * Corrected broken character in klogd.8 (cloes: Bug#75932)
  * Only rotate logfiles with size greater than zero.  This got lost due
    to 1.4.0 brokennes which was packaged and removed some hours later
    (closes: Bug#74993, Bug#49824)
  * Added another note about modificability of cronjobs (closes:
    Bug#88741)
  * Since klogd replaces parts of sysklogd a proper Replaces line is there
  * Added final newline to CHANGES

23 years ago . Bumped patchlevel release-1.4-1
Joey Schulze [Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:40:10 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
 . Bumped patchlevel
 . Changed versioning scheme to version.patchlevel (like 1.4.1)

23 years ago . Removed kernel.patch since it is no longer required
Joey Schulze [Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:35:52 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
 . Removed kernel.patch since it is no longer required

 . Changed SOCK_STREAM to SOCK_DGRAM in syslog.c

 . klogd will only change the console log level if `-c' is supplied

 . syslogd.c by Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

   Um, if the directory is invalid, the bind() call in
   create_unix_socket fails. Without the return -1, we return the
   invalid fd that we just closed.  When syslogd then starts
   listening, select goes into a hard loop getting EBADF, IIRC.

 . klogd.c by Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>

   I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it
   encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text
   parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver
   from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the product
   code of my laptop's 3Com card. It could be argued that the kernel
   should never output zero bytes in the logging info, but obviously
   that will happen from time to time.

   I fear this bug might be considered a security issue as well, if
   the kernel can be coerced to output a zero byte somehow, all kernel
   logging will stop.

   Wolfgang Oertl <Wolfgang.Oertl@uibk.ac.at> had a similar bugfix
   idea

 . klogd.c by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

   Additionally, the patch prevents LogLine from being invoked with a
   negative counter as an argument.

23 years ago . klogd will only change the console log level if `-c' is supplied
Joey Schulze [Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:35:51 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
 . klogd will only change the console log level if `-c' is supplied

 . klogd.c by Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>

   I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it
   encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text
   parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver
   from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the product
   code of my laptop's 3Com card. It could be argued that the kernel
   should never output zero bytes in the logging info, but obviously
   that will happen from time to time.

   I fear this bug might be considered a security issue as well, if
   the kernel can be coerced to output a zero byte somehow, all kernel
   logging will stop.

   Wolfgang Oertl <Wolfgang.Oertl@uibk.ac.at> had a similar bugfix
   idea

 . klogd.c by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

   Additionally, the patch prevents LogLine from being invoked with a
   negative counter as an argument.

23 years agoMon Sep 18 15:33:26 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de> release-1.4
Joey Schulze [Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:41:33 +0000 (13:41 +0000)]
Mon Sep 18 15:33:26 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
    Removed unixm/unix domain sockets and switch to Datagram Unix
    Sockets.  This should remove one possibility to play DoS with
    syslogd.  Thanks to Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de> for the patch.

23 years agoAdded patch to fix priority decoding after moving kernel messgages
Joey Schulze [Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:34:12 +0000 (07:34 +0000)]
Added patch to fix priority decoding after moving kernel messgages
into "%s".  Thanks to Solar Designer <solar@false.com> for the patch.

This refers to CVE-2000-0867
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0867

  Kernel logging daemon (klogd) in Linux does not properly cleanse
  user-injected format strings, which allows local users to gain root
  privileges by triggering malformed kernel messages.

Except, users cannot insert arbitrary strings in the kernel log
rinbuffer, can they?

23 years ago Mon Sep 18 09:32:27 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:34:11 +0000 (07:34 +0000)]
 Mon Sep 18 09:32:27 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
      Added patch to fix priority decoding after moving kernel
      messgages into "%s".  Thanks to Solar Designer
      <solar@false.com> for the patch.

23 years agobump up the version
Joey Schulze [Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:33:58 +0000 (07:33 +0000)]
bump up the version

23 years ago Mon Sep 18 09:10:47 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:13:08 +0000 (07:13 +0000)]
 Mon Sep 18 09:10:47 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
      Fixed bug in printchopped() that caused syslogd to emit
      kern.emerg messages when splitting long lines.  Thanks to
      Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> for the fix.

23 years agoLast preparation for 1.4
Joey Schulze [Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:44:52 +0000 (19:44 +0000)]
Last preparation for 1.4

23 years agoRemoved old announce
Joey Schulze [Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:42:58 +0000 (19:42 +0000)]
Removed old announce

23 years ago Sun Sep 17 21:26:16 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
Joey Schulze [Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:30:50 +0000 (19:30 +0000)]
 Sun Sep 17 21:26:16 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
      Don't close open sockets upon reload.  Thanks to Bill Nottingham.

23 years ago Sun Sep 17 20:45:33 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
Joey Schulze [Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:49:39 +0000 (18:49 +0000)]
 Sun Sep 17 20:45:33 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
      Fixed some bugs in printline() code that did not escape
      control characters '\177' through '\237' and contained a
      single-byte buffer overflow.  Thanks to Solar Designer
      <solar@false.com>.

23 years ago . Close symbol file before returning with 0 when an error occurred
Joey Schulze [Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:53:31 +0000 (21:53 +0000)]
 . Close symbol file before returning with 0 when an error occurred
   while reading it.  This will enable systems to umount that
   partition with no open file descriptor left over.

23 years ago . Use lseek64() instead of llseek() which is deprecated these days
Joey Schulze [Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:15:28 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
 . Use lseek64() instead of llseek() which is deprecated these days
 . Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
   - Fixed bug that caused klogd to die if there is no sym_array available.
   - When symbols are expanded, print the line twice.  Once with
     addresses converted to symbols, once with the raw text.  Allows
     external programs such as ksymoops do their own processing on the
     original data.

24 years agoTwo spaces after fullstop. debian-1.3-33
Joey Schulze [Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:49:14 +0000 (10:49 +0000)]
Two spaces after fullstop.

24 years ago . Started with CHANGES file
Joey Schulze [Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:28:44 +0000 (10:28 +0000)]
 . Started with CHANGES file
 . Skip newline when reading in klog messages

24 years agoAdjustments
Joey Schulze [Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:26:42 +0000 (10:26 +0000)]
Adjustments

24 years ago * Fixed typo in syslogd-listfiles (closes: Bug#35408) debian-1.3-32
Joey Schulze [Sun, 23 May 1999 08:41:06 +0000 (08:41 +0000)]
  * Fixed typo in syslogd-listfiles (closes: Bug#35408)
  * Removed superflous call to utmpname() (closes: Bug#34733)
  * Added --ignore-size and limit for rotating log files at 2MB to
    syslogd-listfiles (closes: Bug#36198)

25 years agoArgs, the last commit contained some mistakes. debian-1.3-31
Joey Schulze [Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:31:58 +0000 (11:31 +0000)]
Args, the last commit contained some mistakes.

25 years ago * ``-m 0'' turns off -- MARK -- now. (closes: Bug#28629, Bug#31494)
Joey Schulze [Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:09:12 +0000 (00:09 +0000)]
  * ``-m 0'' turns off -- MARK -- now. (closes: Bug#28629, Bug#31494)
  * Changed Greg's e-mail address to represent his current one.
  * Shortened line length for kernel logging slightly.
  * Corrected return value of AddModule (closes: Bug#30093)
  * Finally fixed an error with `-a' processing, thanks to Topi Miettinen
    <tom@medialab.sonera.net> (closes: Bug#30462)

25 years ago * Contains more patches from Topi Miettinen. debian-1.3-30
Joey Schulze [Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:43:18 +0000 (18:43 +0000)]
  * Contains more patches from Topi Miettinen.
  * Fixed two mistakes from the most recent version
  * Fixed fd leak problem.  Thanks to Topi for detecting it
  * Ouch!  Looks like the released package again is broken.  It worked
    locally.

25 years ago * Re-Applied patch provided vom Topi Miettinen with regard to the people debian-1.3-29
Joey Schulze [Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:19 +0000 (18:23 +0000)]
  * Re-Applied patch provided vom Topi Miettinen with regard to the people
    from OpenBSD.  This provides the additional '-a' argument used for
    specifying additional UNIX domain sockets to listen to.  This is been
    used with chroot()'ed named's for example.  An example is described at
    http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns.html.  This time the patch doesn't
    stall syslogd.  Thanks to Topi Miettinen <tom@medialab.sonera.net>
    (closes: Bug#24893)

25 years ago * Reverted support for multiple Unix domain sockets since it caused debian-1.3-28
Joey Schulze [Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:35:38 +0000 (17:35 +0000)]
  * Reverted support for multiple Unix domain sockets since it caused
    syslogd to not accept more sockets after a certain (undefinitve)
    time.  (opens: Bug#24893)
  * The complete code is still present, search for `Bug#24893'
  * Commented out `-a' in the syslogd.8 manpage

25 years agoAdded tklogd to clobber target. debian-1.3-27
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:25:15 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
Added tklogd to clobber target.

25 years ago Mon Oct 12 20:49:18 MET DST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:20:25 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
  Mon Oct 12 20:49:18 MET DST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Avoid logging of SIGCHLD when syslogd is in the process of
      exiting and closing its files.  Again thanks to Topi.

  Mon Oct 12 22:18:34 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Modified printline() to support 8bit characters - such as
      russion letters.  Thanks to Vladas Lapinskas <lapinskas@mail.iae.lt>.

25 years ago * Code cleanups with regard to bsd -> posix transition and stronger
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:24:48 +0000 (18:24 +0000)]
  * Code cleanups with regard to bsd -> posix transition and stronger
    security (buffer length checking).  Thanks to Topi Miettinen
    <tom@medialab.sonera.net> (closes: Bug#24894)
    . index() --> strchr()
    . sprintf() --> snprintf()
    . bcopy() --> memcpy()
    . bzero() --> memset()
    . UNAMESZ --> UT_NAMESIZE
    . sys_errlist --> strerror()
  * Added support for setutent()/getutent()/endutend() instead of binary
    reading the UTMP file.  This is the the most portable way.  Thanks to
    Topi Miettinen <tom@medialab.sonera.net>.

25 years agoAdded support for TESTING.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:58:12 +0000 (16:58 +0000)]
Added support for TESTING.

25 years agoAdded support for tklogd and tsyslogd which are testing environments.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:57:53 +0000 (16:57 +0000)]
Added support for tklogd and tsyslogd which are testing environments.

25 years agoChanged the define.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:47:05 +0000 (16:47 +0000)]
Changed the define.

25 years agoAdded documentation for `-a' argument.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:46:11 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
Added documentation for `-a' argument.

25 years agoAdded URL.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:43:28 +0000 (16:43 +0000)]
Added URL.

25 years agoAdded additional array boundary check.
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:40:20 +0000 (16:40 +0000)]
Added additional array boundary check.

25 years ago Mon Oct 12 00:42:30 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:39:49 +0000 (16:39 +0000)]
  Mon Oct 12 00:42:30 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Modified CheckVersion()
      . Use shift to decode the kernel version
      . Compare integers of kernel version
      . extract major.minor.patch from utsname.release via sscanf()
      The reason lays in possible use of kernel flavours which
      modify utsname.release but no the Version_ symbol.

25 years ago Sat Oct 10 20:01:48 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:38:30 +0000 (16:38 +0000)]
  Sat Oct 10 20:01:48 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Added support for TESTING define which will turn klogd into
      stdio-mode used for debugging.

  Mon Oct 12 13:01:27 MET DST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Used unsigned long and strtoul() to resolve kernel oops symbols.

25 years ago Mon Oct 12 13:30:35 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:36:18 +0000 (16:36 +0000)]
  Mon Oct 12 13:30:35 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Redirected some error output with regard to argument parsing to
      stderr.

  Mon Oct 12 14:02:51 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Applied patch provided vom Topi Miettinen with regard to the
      people from OpenBSD.  This provides the additional '-a'
      argument used for specifying additional UNIX domain sockets to
      listen to.  This is been used with chroot()'ed named's for
      example.

  Mon Oct 12 18:29:44 CEST 1998: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
      Added `ftp' facility which was introduced in glibc version 2.
      It's #ifdef'ed so won't harm with older libraries.

25 years ago . Added support for TESTING define which will turn syslogd into
Joey Schulze [Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:35:02 +0000 (11:35 +0000)]
 . Added support for TESTING define which will turn syslogd into
   stdio-mode used for debugging.

 . Reworked the initialization/fork code.  Now the parent process
   activates a signal handler which the daughter process will raise if
   it is initialized.  Only after that one the parent process may
   exit.  Otherwise klogd might try to flush its log cache while
   syslogd can't receive the messages yet.

25 years ago * The code now is compilable without SYSLOG_INET again. Thanks to
Joey Schulze [Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:56:53 +0000 (23:56 +0000)]
 * The code now is compilable without SYSLOG_INET again.  Thanks to
   Enrik Berkhan <enrik@rzstud1.akk.org>.

25 years ago * Postinst will create files with correct file modes (closes: Bug#21212)
Joey Schulze [Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:43:39 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
  * Postinst will create files with correct file modes (closes: Bug#21212)
  * Made /dev/xconsole mode 0640 and root.adm (closes: Bug#11917)
  * Changed priority of exit message from LOG_ERR to LOG_INFO (closes
    Bug#21606)

26 years agoCorrected Mark's email address. debian-1.3-26
Joey Schulze [Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:46:21 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
Corrected Mark's email address.

26 years ago * Fixed typos in syslogd-listfiles(1), thanks to Francesco Potorti`
Joey Schulze [Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:27:37 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
  * Fixed typos in syslogd-listfiles(1), thanks to Francesco Potorti`
    <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it> (closes: Bug#20903)
  * Corrected email address for Shane Alderton (closes: Bug#20765)
  * Fixed manpage to not reflect reverse implementated SIGALRM signal
    handler (closes: Bug#20647)
  * Modified behaviour with including <sys/module.h> (closes: Bug#20556)
  * Added correct prototype for llseek() (closes: Bug#20507, Bug#20220)
  * Added more log information if problems occurr while reading a system
    map file.
  * Modified System.map read function to try all possible map files until
    a file with matching version is found.
  * Added Debian release to klogd
  * Switched to fgets() as gets() is not buffer overrun secure.
  * Modified loop for detecting the correct system map.

26 years ago * Applied patch from Pedro Manuel Rodrigues <pmanuel@cindy.fe.up.pt> to debian-1.3-25 debian-1.3.25-1
Joey Schulze [Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:56:43 +0000 (22:56 +0000)]
  * Applied patch from Pedro Manuel Rodrigues <pmanuel@cindy.fe.up.pt> to
    let klogd work togther with >2GB address space.

26 years ago * Corrected Topi's patch as it prevented forwarding during startup due debian-1.3-24
Joey Schulze [Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:20:58 +0000 (12:20 +0000)]
  * Corrected Topi's patch as it prevented forwarding during startup due
    to an unknown LogPort.
  * Finalized it

26 years ago Fixed little comparison mistake that prevented the MARK
Joey Schulze [Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:53:47 +0000 (09:53 +0000)]
 Fixed little comparison mistake that prevented the MARK
 feature to work properly.

26 years ago * Applied patch from Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi> to open debian-1.3-23
Joey Schulze [Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:41:00 +0000 (23:41 +0000)]
  * Applied patch from Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi> to open
    the UDP socket only if it is really needed.
  * Updated sysklogd(8) manpage
  * Added note to mailing list

26 years agoCorrected FSFs address (lintian)
Joey Schulze [Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:37:14 +0000 (22:37 +0000)]
Corrected FSFs address (lintian)

26 years ago * Removed killall-statement from postinst. Thanks to James Troup for debian-1.3.22-1
Joey Schulze [Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:40:48 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
  * Removed killall-statement from postinst.  Thanks to James Troup for
    reporting it.
  * Added chdir("/") to both daemons (fixes: Bug#17601)

26 years ago * Another patch for Linux/alpha by Christopher C Chimelis debian-1.3-22
Joey Schulze [Sun, 25 Jan 1998 21:06:08 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
  * Another patch for Linux/alpha by Christopher C Chimelis
    <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu> (fixes: Bug#17385)

26 years ago As the bug covering the %'s introduced a problem with
Joey Schulze [Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:52:12 +0000 (20:52 +0000)]
  As the bug covering the %'s introduced a problem with
  unevaluated priorities I've worked out a real fix that strips
  %'s to an even number which is harmless for printf.

26 years ago * Fixed small typo in syslogd-listfiles debian-1.3-20 debian-1.3-21
Joey Schulze [Tue, 13 Jan 1998 01:30:28 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
  * Fixed small typo in syslogd-listfiles
  * Corrected debug output concerning remote receiption
  * Removed race condition in syslogd-listfiles
  * Modified logfile detection routine to take care of double listed
    logfiles.  Thanks to Roman Hodek <roman@debian.org> for providing an
    appropriate patch.  (Bug#17000)

26 years ago * Corrected some code that caused klogd to dump core when receiving some
Joey Schulze [Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:02:57 +0000 (18:02 +0000)]
  * Corrected some code that caused klogd to dump core when receiving some
    special messages from 2.1.78.  Thanks to Chu-yeon Park
    <kokids@doit.ajou.ac.kr> for informing me.
  * Fixed bug that caused klogd to die if there is no System.map
    available.
  * Added -x switch to omit EIP translation and System.map evaluation.
    Thanks to Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>.
  * Fixed small bugs in F_FORW_UNKN meachanism.  Thanks to Torsten Neumann
    <torsten@londo.rhein-main.de> for pointing me to it.
  * Fixed problem with klogd not being able to be built on a kernel newer
    than 2.1.18.  Worked in a patch from Alessandro Suardi <asuardi@uninetcom.it>

26 years ago * Corrected Standards-Version to 2.3.0.1 (Bug#16769) debian-1.3-19
Joey Schulze [Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:03:55 +0000 (00:03 +0000)]
  * Corrected Standards-Version to 2.3.0.1 (Bug#16769)
  * Reworked one line of an older patch because it prevented syslogd from
    binding the socket with the result that no messages were forwarded to
    other hosts.
  * Changed the behaviour of klogd when receiving a terminate signal. Now
    the program terminates immediately instead of completing the receipt of
    a kernel message.  (Bug#16796, Bug#16828, Bug#16148)
  * Noticed a bug which was closed by 1.3-18 (Bug#14776)
  * Changed Maintainer address to joey@debian.org

26 years ago * Added test in postinst if user and group exist. Christoph Lameter run debian-1.3-18
Joey Schulze [Fri, 2 Jan 1998 03:07:16 +0000 (03:07 +0000)]
  * Added test in postinst if user and group exist.  Christoph Lameter run
    into trouble upgrading a RedHat system.
  * Fixed little mistake which prevented klogd from accepting a console
    log level of 8 to get <7> alias KERN_DEBUG displayed.
  * Linked against libc6 (Bug#11731)
  * Added SHELL=/bin/bash to rules as Herbert Xu suggested
  * Corrected syslog.conf(5) manpage
  * syslogd resets the ignore priority flag now.  Thanks to Herbert
    Thielen. (Bug#12009)
  * Fixed bug that caused syslogd to write into wrong files under some
    race conditions.  Thanks to Herbet Xu. (Bug#13506)
  * /var/log/auth.log will only be touch if needed (Bug#14329)
  * debian/conffiles is treated like a document (Bug#14521)
  * Added script for generic logfile detection and rotation and included
    that in cron scripts, included also its manpage (Bug#14610)
  * Modified restart messages in /etc/init.d/sysklogd (Bug#15840)
  * klogd will first try to load /boot/System.map-$ver, then
    /boot/System.map, then /System.map-$ver and after that /System.map
  * Modified ExpandKadds() because there were some problems accessing
    memory r/w.  (Bug#15336)

26 years ago * Fixed little mistake which prevented klogd from accepting a console
Joey Schulze [Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:14:52 +0000 (10:14 +0000)]
  * Fixed little mistake which prevented klogd from accepting a console
    log level of 8 to get <7> alias KERN_DEBUG displayed.

26 years agoMinor fixes. debian-1.3-17
Joey Schulze [Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:23:45 +0000 (13:23 +0000)]
Minor fixes.

26 years agoFixed stupid bug which caused klogd to eat up 90% cpu time.
Joey Schulze [Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:01:10 +0000 (10:01 +0000)]
Fixed stupid bug which caused klogd to eat up 90% cpu time.

26 years agoSome more glibc patches made by Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>. release-1.3-16
Joey Schulze [Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:14:04 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
Some more glibc patches made by Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>.

26 years agoAdded patch from Leland Olds which fixes a buffer overrun and improved
Joey Schulze [Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:35:55 +0000 (09:35 +0000)]
Added patch from Leland Olds which fixes a buffer overrun and improved
symbol lookup.

26 years agoIncluded upstream patches for 1.3.1 to 1.3.3 and modified debian/rules
Joey Schulze [Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:42:20 +0000 (07:42 +0000)]
Included upstream patches for 1.3.1 to 1.3.3 and modified debian/rules
to support better debugging by including a patch to the modules package.

26 years agoIncluded improvements and bugfixes
Joey Schulze [Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:06:52 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
Included improvements and bugfixes

26 years agoUpgrading to version 1.3-15 from the archive release-1.3-15
Joey Schulze [Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:42:34 +0000 (17:42 +0000)]
Upgrading to version 1.3-15 from the archive

26 years agoImport of bare source for 1.3 release-1.3 release-1.3-0
Joey Schulze [Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:21:41 +0000 (17:21 +0000)]
Import of bare source for 1.3