Sol2.4 syslogd & wildcard lovel matching (syslogd replacements)
> I'm looking to replace my syslogd because mine doesn't understand a wildcard
> as the priority level like this:
> mail.* /var/log/mail
>
> After a lot of searching I found a sendmail replacement in the fwtk
> package
> and managed to get it to compile. It didn't seem to work with Solaris
> though,
> so I dropped it.
>
> Does someone know about a good sendmail replacement that can take a
> wildcard
> for priority and maybe even supports regexps, and works on Sol (2.4) ?
As Christopher Barnard pointed out this isn't a sendmail issue. This was an
error in my original letter, of course I meant to say "syslogd replacement"
but that's what you get when you don't proofread :-/
Solution:
You do not need wildcards as priority, if you specify the lowest logging
level (debug), syslogd will log that level along with all higher levels.
Thus, the line:
*.debug /var/adm/hugelog
will log *everything*.
Note, though, that the syslogd that comes with Solaris does *not* support
regexps. There is a syslogd that supports regular expressions. To get it,
you have to get tis's fwtk package (www.tis.com), and a syslogd replacement
will be i think in the tools/server/syslog dir of the tar file.
This syslogd is based on BSD code, but even I could get it to compile on
Solaris. (The easy way is to use -lucb, the harder way to:
1) #include <sys/fcntl.h> in syslogd.conf
2) use the bcopy, bzero and setlinebuf macros found in the Sol_2_Porting
FAQ:
#define bcopy(src,dest,len) (memmove((dest), (src), (len)))
#define bzero(dest,len) (memset((dest), (char)0, (len)))
#define setlinebuf(fp) setvbuf(fp, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
3) get around the way SIGnals are used, see the Sol_2_Porting FAQ for hints
on this.
Even having done this, although syslogd compiled fine I couldn't get it to
work for me (note that I don't have any C experience). If you do, kindly
contact me and let me know :-)
Thanks to the following people who told me about how the Solaris syslogd
works:
Viet Q Hoang, <vhoang@lucent.com>
Christopher L. Barnard, <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>
Cheers,
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