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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 3.10.0 (rgerhards), 2008-01-??
- added ability to specify listen IP address for UDP syslog server
- added ability to run multiple UDP listeners concurrently
- license changed to GPLv3
- first implementation of loadable input module system
- mark messages are now provided by loadble module immark
- rklogd is no longer provided. Its functionality has now been taken over
by imklog, a loadable input module. This offers a much better integration
into rsyslogd and makes sure that the kernel logger process is brought
up and down at the appropriate times
- enhanced $IncludeConfig directive to support wildcard characters
(thanks to Michael Biebl)
- all inputs are now implemented as loadable plugins
- enhanced threading model: each input module now runs on its own thread
- enhanced message queue which now supports different queueing methods
(among others, this can be used for performance fine-tuning)
- added a large number of new configuration directives for the new
input modules
- ability to bind UDP listeners to specific local interfaces/ports and
ability to run multiple of them concurrently
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.0.0 STABLE (rgerhards), 2008-01-02
- re-release of 1.21.2 as STABLE with no modifications except some
doc updates
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.21.2 (rgerhards), 2007-12-28
- created a gss-api output module. This keeps GSS-API code and
TCP/UDP code separated. It is also important for forward-
compatibility with v3. Please note that this change breaks compatibility
with config files created for 1.21.0 and 1.21.1 - this was considered
acceptable.
- fixed an error in forwarding retry code (could lead to message corruption
but surfaced very seldom)
- increased portability for older platforms (AI_NUMERICSERV moved)
- removed socket leak in omfwd.c
- cross-platform patch for GSS-API compile problem on some platforms
thanks to darix for the patch!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.21.1 (rgerhards), 2007-12-23
- small doc fix for $IncludeConfig
- fixed a bug in llDestroy()
- bugfix: fixing memory leak when message queue is full and during
parsing. Thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch.
- bugfix: when compiled without network support, unix sockets were
not properply closed
- bugfix: memory leak in cfsysline.c/doGetWord() fixed
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.21.0 (rgerhards), 2007-12-19
- GSS-API support for syslog/TCP connections was added. Thanks to
varmojfekoj for providing the patch with this functionality
- code cleanup
- enhanced $IncludeConfig directive to support wildcard filenames
- changed some multithreading synchronization
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.20.1 (rgerhards), 2007-12-12
- corrected a debug setting that survived release. Caused TCP connections
to be retried unnecessarily often.
- When a hostname ACL was provided and DNS resolution for that name failed,
ACL processing was stopped at that point. Thanks to mildew for the patch.
Fedora Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395911
- fixed a potential race condition, see link for details:
http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2007/12/rsyslog-race-condition.html
Note that the probability of problems from this bug was very remote
- fixed a memory leak that happend when PostgreSQL date formats were
used
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.20.0 (rgerhards), 2007-12-07
- an output module for postgres databases has been added. Thanks to
sur5r for contributing this code
- unloading dynamic modules has been cleaned up, we now have a
real implementation and not just a dummy "good enough for the time
being".
- enhanced platform independence - thanks to Bartosz Kuzma and Michael
Biebl for their very useful contributions
- some general code cleanup (including warnings on 64 platforms, only)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.12 (rgerhards), 2007-12-03
- cleaned up the build system (thanks to Michael Biebl for the patch)
- fixed a bug where ommysql was still not compiled with -pthread option
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.11 (rgerhards), 2007-11-29
- applied -pthread option to build when building for multi-threading mode
hopefully solves an issue with segfaulting
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.10 (rgerhards), 2007-10-19
- introdcued the new ":modulename:" syntax for calling module actions
in selector lines; modified ommysql to support it. This is primarily
an aid for further modules and a prequisite to actually allow third
party modules to be created.
- minor fix in slackware startup script, "-r 0" is now "-r0"
- updated rsyslogd doc set man page; now in html format
- undid creation of a separate thread for the main loop -- this did not
turn out to be needed or useful, so reduce complexity once again.
- added doc fixes provided by Michael Biebl - thanks
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.9 (rgerhards), 2007-10-12
- now packaging system which again contains all components in a single
tarball
- modularized main() a bit more, resulting in less complex code
- experimentally added an additional thread - will see if that affects
the segfault bug we experience on some platforms. Note that this change
is scheduled to be removed again later.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.8 (rgerhards), 2007-09-27
- improved repeated message processing
- applied patch provided by varmojfekoj to support building ommysql
in its own way (now also resides in a plugin subdirectory);
ommysql is now a separate package
- fixed a bug in cvthname() that lead to message loss if part
of the source hostname would have been dropped
- created some support for distributing ommysql together with the
main rsyslog package. I need to re-think it in the future, but
for the time being the current mode is best. I now simply include
one additional tarball for ommysql inside the main distribution.
I look forward to user feedback on how this should be done best. In the
long term, a separate project should be spawend for ommysql, but I'd
like to do that only after the plugin interface is fully stable (what
it is not yet).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.7 (rgerhards), 2007-09-25
- added code to handle situations where senders send us messages ending with
a NUL character. It is now simply removed. This also caused trailing LF
reduction to fail, when it was followed by such a NUL. This is now also
handled.
- replaced some non-thread-safe function calls by their thread-safe
counterparts
- fixed a minor memory leak that occured when the %APPNAME% property was
used (I think nobody used that in practice)
- fixed a bug that caused signal handlers in cvthname() not to be restored when
a malicious pointer record was detected and processing of the message been
stopped for that reason (this should be really rare and can not be related
to the segfault bug we are hunting).
- fixed a bug in cvthname that lead to passing a wrong parameter - in
practice, this had no impact.
- general code cleanup (e.g. compiler warnings, comments)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.6 (rgerhards), 2007-09-11
- applied patch by varmojfekoj to change signal handling to the new
sigaction API set (replacing the depreciated signal() calls and its
friends.
- fixed a bug that in --enable-debug mode caused an assertion when the
discard action was used
- cleaned up compiler warnings
- applied patch by varmojfekoj to FIX a bug that could cause
segfaults if empty properties were processed using modifying
options (e.g. space-cc, drop-cc)
- fixed man bug: rsyslogd supports -l option
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.5 (rgerhards), 2007-09-07
- changed part of the CStr interface so that better error tracking
is provided and the calling sequence is more intuitive (there were
invalid calls based on a too-weired interface)
- (hopefully) fixed some remaining bugs rooted in wrong use of
the CStr class. These could lead to program abort.
- applied patch by varmojfekoj two fix two potential segfault situations
- added $ModDir config directive
- modified $ModLoad so that an absolute path may be specified as
module name (e.g. /rsyslog/ommysql.so)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.4 (rgerhards/varmojfekoj), 2007-09-04
- fixed a number of small memory leaks - thanks varmojfekoj for patching
- fixed an issue with CString class that could lead to rsyslog abort
in tplToString() - thanks varmojfekoj for patching
- added a man-version of the config file documenation - thanks to Michel
Samia for providing the man file
- fixed bug: a template like this causes an infinite loop:
$template opts,"%programname:::a,b%"
thanks varmojfekoj for the patch
- fixed bug: case changing options crash freeing the string pointer
because they modify it: $template opts2,"%programname::1:lowercase%"
thanks varmojfekoj for the patch
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.3 (mmeckelein/varmojfekoj), 2007-08-31
- small mem leak fixed (after calling parseSelectorAct) - Thx varmojkekoj
- documentation section "Regular File" und "Blocks" updated
- solved an issue with dynamic file generation - Once again many thanks
to varmojfekoj
- the negative selector for program name filter (Blocks) does not work as
expected - Thanks varmojfekoj for patching
- added forwarding information to sysklogd (requires special template)
to config doc
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.2 (mmeckelein/varmojfekoj), 2007-08-28
- a specifically formed message caused a segfault - Many thanks varmojfekoj
for providing a patch
- a typo and a weird condition are fixed in msg.c - Thanks again
varmojfekoj
- on file creation the file was always owned by root:root. This is fixed
now - Thanks ypsa for solving this issue
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.1 (mmeckelein), 2007-08-22
- a bug that caused a high load when a TCP/UDP connection was closed is
fixed now - Thanks mildew for solving this issue
- fixed a bug which caused a segfault on reinit - Thx varmojfekoj for the
patch
- changed the hardcoded module path "/lib/rsyslog" to $(pkglibdir) in order
to avoid trouble e.g. on 64 bit platforms (/lib64) - many thanks Peter
Vrabec and darix, both provided a patch for solving this issue
- enhanced the unloading of modules - thanks again varmojfekoj
- applied a patch from varmojfekoj which fixes various little things in
MySQL output module
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.19.0 (varmojfekoj/rgerhards), 2007-08-16
- integrated patch from varmojfekoj to make the mysql module a loadable one
many thanks for the patch, MUCH appreciated
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.18.2 (rgerhards), 2007-08-13
- fixed a bug in outchannel code that caused templates to be incorrectly
parsed
- fixed a bug in ommysql that caused a wrong ";template" missing message
- added some code for unloading modules; not yet fully complete (and we do
not yet have loadable modules, so this is no problem)
- removed debian subdirectory by request of a debian packager (this is a special
subdir for debian and there is also no point in maintaining it when there
is a debian package available - so I gladly did this) in some cases
- improved overall doc quality (some pages were quite old) and linked to
more of the online resources.
- improved /contrib/delete_mysql script by adding a host option and some
other minor modifications
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.18.1 (rgerhards), 2007-08-08
- applied a patch from varmojfekoj which solved a potential segfault
of rsyslogd on HUP
- applied patch from Michel Samia to fix compilation when the pthreads
feature is disabled
- some code cleanup (moved action object to its own file set)
- add config directive $MainMsgQueueSize, which now allows to configure the
queue size dynamically
- all compile-time settings are now shown in rsyslogd -v, not just the
active ones
- enhanced performance a little bit more
- added config file directive $ActionResumeInterval
- fixed a bug that prevented compilation under debian sid
- added a contrib directory for user-contributed useful things
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.18.0 (rgerhards), 2007-08-03
- rsyslog now supports fallback actions when an action did not work. This
is a great feature e.g. for backup database servers or backup syslog
servers
- modified rklogd to only change the console log level if -c is specified
- added feature to use multiple actions inside a single selector
- implemented $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended config directive
- error messages during startup are now spit out to the configured log
destinations
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.17.6 (rgerhards), 2007-08-01
- continued to work on output module modularization - basic stage of
this work is now FINISHED
- fixed bug in OMSRcreate() - always returned SR_RET_OK
- fixed a bug that caused ommysql to always complain about missing
templates
- fixed a mem leak in OMSRdestruct - freeing the object itself was
forgotten - thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
- fixed a memory leak in syslogd/init() that happend when the config
file could not be read - thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
- fixed insufficient memory allocation in addAction() and its helpers.
The initial fix and idea was developed by mildew, I fine-tuned
it a bit. Thanks a lot for the fix, I'd probably had pulled out my
hair to find the bug...
- added output of config file line number when a parsing error occured
- fixed bug in objomsr.c that caused program to abort in debug mode with
an invalid assertion (in some cases)
- fixed a typo that caused the default template for MySQL to be wrong.
thanks to mildew for catching this.
- added configuration file command $DebugPrintModuleList and
$DebugPrintCfSysLineHandlerList
- fixed an invalid value for the MARK timer - unfortunately, there was
a testing aid left in place. This resulted in quite frequent MARK messages
- added $IncludeConfig config directive
- applied a patch from mildew to prevent rsyslogd from freezing under heavy
load. This could happen when the queue was full. Now, we drop messages
but rsyslogd remains active.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.17.5 (rgerhards), 2007-07-30
- continued to work on output module modularization
- fixed a missing file bug - thanks to Andrea Montanari for reporting
this problem
- fixed a problem with shutting down the worker thread and freeing the
selector_t list - this caused messages to be lost, because the
message queue was not properly drained before the selectors got
destroyed.
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Version 1.17.4 (rgerhards), 2007-07-27
- continued to work on output module modularization
- fixed a situation where rsyslogd could create zombie processes
thanks to mildew for the patch
- applied patch from Michel Samia to fix compilation when NOT
compiled for pthreads
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Version 1.17.3 (rgerhards), 2007-07-25
- continued working on output module modularization
- fixed a bug that caused rsyslogd to segfault on exit (and
probably also on HUP), when there was an unsent message in a selector
that required forwarding and the dns lookup failed for that selector
(yes, it was pretty unlikely to happen;))
thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- fixed a memory leak in config file parsing and die()
thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- rsyslogd now checks on startup if it is capable to performa any work
at all. If it cant, it complains and terminates
thanks to Michel Samia for providing the patch!
- fixed a small memory leak when HUPing syslogd. The allowed sender
list now gets freed. thanks to mildew for the patch.
- changed the way error messages in early startup are logged. They
now do no longer use the syslogd code directly but are rather
send to stderr.
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Version 1.17.2 (rgerhards), 2007-07-23
- made the port part of the -r option optional. Needed for backward
compatibility with sysklogd
- replaced system() calls with something more reasonable. Please note that
this might break compatibility with some existing configuration files.
We accept this in favour of the gained security.
- removed a memory leak that could occur if timegenerated was used in
RFC 3164 format in templates
- did some preparation in msg.c for advanced multithreading - placed the
hooks, but not yet any active code
- worked further on modularization
- added $ModLoad MySQL (dummy) config directive
- added DropTrailingLFOnReception config directive
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Version 1.17.1 (rgerhards), 2007-07-20
- fixed a bug that caused make install to install rsyslogd and rklogd under
the wrong names
- fixed bug that caused $AllowedSenders to handle IPv6 scopes incorrectly;
also fixed but that could grabble $AllowedSender wildcards. Thanks to
mildew@gmail.com for the patch
- minor code cleanup - thanks to Peter Vrabec for the patch
- fixed minimal memory leak on HUP (caused by templates)
thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- fixed another memory leak on HUPing and on exiting rsyslogd
again thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- code cleanup (removed compiler warnings)
- fixed portability bug in configure.ac - thanks to Bartosz Kuźma for patch
- moved msg object into its own file set
- added the capability to continue trying to write log files when the
file system is full. Functionality based on patch by Martin Schulze
to sysklogd package.
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Version 1.17.0 (RGer), 2007-07-17
- added $RepeatedLineReduction config parameter
- added $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive config parameter
- added $ControlCharacterEscapePrefix config parameter
- added $DirCreateMode config parameter
- added $CreateDirs config parameter
- added $DebugPrintTemplateList config parameter
- added $ResetConfigVariables config parameter
- added $FileOwner config parameter
- added $FileGroup config parameter
- added $DirOwner config parameter
- added $DirGroup config parameter
- added $FailOnChownFailure config parameter
- added regular expression support to the filter engine
thanks to Michel Samia for providing the patch!
- enhanced $AllowedSender functionality. Credits to mildew@gmail.com for
the patch doing that
- added IPv6 support
- allowed DNS hostnames
- allowed DNS wildcard names
- added new option $DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords
- added autoconf so that rfc3195d, rsyslogd and klogd are stored to /sbin
- added capability to auto-create directories with dynaFiles
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Version 1.16.0 (RGer/Peter Vrabec), 2007-07-13 - The Friday, 13th Release ;)
- build system switched to autotools
- removed SYSV preprocessor macro use, replaced with autotools equivalents
- fixed a bug that caused rsyslogd to segfault when TCP listening was
disabled and it terminated
- added new properties "syslogfacility-text" and "syslogseverity-text"
thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- added the -x option to disable hostname dns reslution
thanks to varmojfekoj <varmojfekoj@gmail.com> for the patch
- begun to better modularize syslogd.c - this is an ongoing project; moved
type definitions to a separate file
- removed some now-unused fields from struct filed
- move file size limit fields in struct field to the "right spot" (the file
writing part of the union - f_un.f_file)
- subdirectories linux and solaris are no longer part of the distribution
package. This is not because we cease support for them, but there are no
longer any files in them after the move to autotools
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Version 1.15.1 (RGer), 2007-07-10
- fixed a bug that caused a dynaFile selector to stall when there was
an open error with one file
- improved template processing for dynaFiles; templates are now only
looked up during initialization - speeds up processing
- optimized memory layout in struct filed when compiled with MySQL
support
- fixed a bug that caused compilation without SYSLOG_INET to fail
- re-enabled the "last message repeated n times" feature. This
feature was not taken care of while rsyslogd evolved from sysklogd
and it was more or less defunct. Now it is fully functional again.
- added system properties: $NOW, $YEAR, $MONTH, $DAY, $HOUR, $MINUTE
- fixed a bug in iovAsString() that caused a memory leak under stress
conditions (most probably memory shortage). This was unlikely to
ever happen, but it doesn't hurt doing it right
- cosmetic: defined type "uchar", change all unsigned chars to uchar
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.15.0 (RGer), 2007-07-05
- added ability to dynamically generate file names based on templates
and thus properties. This was a much-requested feature. It makes
life easy when it e.g. comes to splitting files based on the sender
address.
- added $umask and $FileCreateMode config file directives
- applied a patch from Bartosz Kuzma to compile cleanly under NetBSD
- checks for extra (unexpected) characters in system config file lines
have been added
- added IPv6 documentation - was accidently missing from CVS
- begun to change char to unsigned char
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Version 1.14.2 (RGer), 2007-07-03
** this release fixes all known nits with IPv6 **
- restored capability to do /etc/service lookup for "syslog"
service when -r 0 was given
- documented IPv6 handling of syslog messages
- integrate patch from Bartosz Kuźma to make rsyslog compile under
Solaris again (the patch replaced a strndup() call, which is not
available under Solaris
- improved debug logging when waiting on select
- updated rsyslogd man page with new options (-46A)
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Version 1.14.1 (RGer/Peter Vrabec), 2007-06-29
- added Peter Vrabec's patch for IPv6 TCP
- prefixed all messages send to stderr in rsyslogd with "rsyslogd: "
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Version 1.14.0 (RGer/Peter Vrabec), 2007-06-28
- Peter Vrabec provided IPv6 for rsyslog, so we are now IPv6 enabled
IPv6 Support is currently for UDP only, TCP is to come soon.
AllowedSender configuration does not yet work for IPv6.
- fixed code in iovCreate() that broke C's strict aliasing rules
- fixed some char/unsigned char differences that forced the compiler
to spit out warning messages
- updated the Red Hat init script to fix a known issue (thanks to
Peter Vrabec)
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Version 1.13.5 (RGer), 2007-06-22
- made the TCP session limit configurable via command line switch
now -t <port>,<max sessions>
- added man page for rklogd(8) (basically a copy from klogd, but now
there is one...)
- fixed a bug that caused internal messages (e.g. rsyslogd startup) to
appear without a tag.
- removed a minor memory leak that occurred when TAG processing requalified
a HOSTNAME to be a TAG (and a TAG already was set).
- removed potential small memory leaks in MsgSet***() functions. There
would be a leak if a property was re-set, something that happened
extremely seldom.
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Version 1.13.4 (RGer), 2007-06-18
- added a new property "PRI-text", which holds the PRI field in
textual form (e.g. "syslog.info")
- added alias "syslogseverity" for "syslogpriority", which is a
misleading property name that needs to stay for historical
reasons (and backward-compatility)
- added doc on how to record PRI value in log file
- enhanced signal handling in klogd, including removal of an unsafe
call to the logging system during signal handling
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Version 1.13.3 (RGer), 2007-06-15
- create a version of syslog.c from scratch. This is now
- highly optimized for rsyslog
- removes an incompatible license problem as the original
version had a BSD license with advertising clause
- fixed in the regard that rklogd will continue to work when
rsysogd has been restarted (the original version, as well
as sysklogd, will remain silent then)
- solved an issue with an extra NUL char at message end that the
original version had
- applied some changes to klogd to care for the new interface
- fixed a bug in syslogd.c which prevented compiling under debian
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Version 1.13.2 (RGer), 2007-06-13
- lib order in makefile patched to facilitate static linking - thanks
to Bennett Todd for providing the patch
- Integrated a patch from Peter Vrabec (pvrabec@redheat.com):
- added klogd under the name of rklogd (remove dependency on
original sysklogd package
- createDB.sql now in UTF
- added additional config files for use on Red Hat
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Version 1.13.1 (RGer), 2007-02-05
- changed the listen backlog limit to a more reasonable value based on
the maximum number of TCP connections configurd (10% + 5) - thanks to Guy
Standen for the hint (actually, the limit was 5 and that was a
left-over from early testing).
- fixed a bug in makefile which caused DB-support to be disabled when
NETZIP support was enabled
- added the -e option to allow transmission of every message to remote
hosts (effectively turns off duplicate message suppression)
- (somewhat) improved memory consumption when compiled with MySQL support
- looks like we fixed an incompatibility with MySQL 5.x and above software
At least in one case, the remote server name was destroyed, leading to
a connection failure. The new, improved code does not have this issue and
so we see this as solved (the new code is generally somewhat better, so
there is a good chance we fixed this incompatibility).
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Version 1.13.0 (RGer), 2006-12-19
- added '$' as ToPos proptery replacer specifier - means "up to the
end of the string"
- property replacer option "escape-cc", "drop-cc" and "space-cc" added
- changed the handling of \0 characters inside syslog messages. We now
consistently escape them to "#000". This is somewhat recommended in
the draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-19 draft. While the real recomendation
is to not escape any characters at all, we can not do this without
considerable modification of the code. So we escape it to "#000", which
is consistent with a sample found in the Internet-draft.
- removed message glue logic (see printchopped() comment for details)
Also caused removal of parts table and thus some improvements in
memory usage.
- changed the default MAXLINE to 2048 to take care of recent syslog
standardization efforts (can easily be changed in syslogd.c)
- added support for byte-counted TCP syslog messages (much like
syslog-transport-tls-05 Internet Draft). This was necessary to
support compression over TCP.
- added support for receiving compressed syslog messages
- added support for sending compressed syslog messages
- fixed a bug where the last message in a syslog/tcp stream was
lost if it was not properly terminated by a LF character
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Version 1.12.3 (RGer), 2006-10-04
- implemented some changes to support Solaris (but support is not
yet complete)
- commented out (via #if 0) some methods that are currently not being use
but should be kept for further us
- added (interim) -u 1 option to turn off hostname and tag parsing
- done some modifications to better support Fedora
- made the field delimiter inside property replace configurable via
template
- fixed a bug in property replacer: if fields were used, the delimitor
became part of the field. Up until now, this was barely noticable as
the delimiter as TAB only and thus invisible to a human. With other
delimiters available now, it quickly showed up. This bug fix might cause
some grief to existing installations if they used the extra TAB for
whatever reasons - sorry folks... Anyhow, a solution is easy: just add
a TAB character contstant into your template. Thus, there has no attempt
been made to do this in a backwards-compatible way.
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Version 1.12.2 (RGer), 2006-02-15
- fixed a bug in the RFC 3339 date formatter. An extra space was added
after the actual timestamp
- added support for providing high-precision RFC3339 timestamps for
(rsyslogd-)internally-generated messages
- very (!) experimental support for syslog-protocol internet draft
added (the draft is experimental, the code is solid ;))
- added support for field-extracting in the property replacer
- enhanced the legacy-syslog parser so that it can interpret messages
that do not contain a TIMESTAMP
- fixed a bug that caused the default socket (usually /dev/log) to be
opened even when -o command line option was given
- fixed a bug in the Debian sample startup script - it caused rsyslogd
to listen to remote requests, which it shouldn't by default
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Version 1.12.1 (RGer), 2005-11-23
- made multithreading work with BSD. Some signal-handling needed to be
restructured. Also, there might be a slight delay of up to 10 seconds
when huping and terminating rsyslogd under BSD
- fixed a bug where a NULL-pointer was passed to printf() in logmsg().
- fixed a bug during "make install" where rc3195d was not installed
Thanks to Bennett Todd for spotting this.
- fixed a bug where rsyslogd dumped core when no TAG was found in the
received message
- enhanced message parser so that it can deal with missing hostnames
in many cases (may not be totally fail-safe)
- fixed a bug where internally-generated messages did not have the correct
TAG
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Version 1.12.0 (RGer), 2005-10-26
- moved to a multi-threaded design. single-threading is still optionally
available. Multi-threading is experimental!
- fixed a potential race condition. In the original code, marking was done
by an alarm handler, which could lead to all sorts of bad things. This
has been changed now. See comments in syslogd.c/domark() for details.
- improved debug output for property-based filters
- not a code change, but: I have checked all exit()s to make sure that
none occurs once rsyslogd has started up. Even in unusual conditions
(like low-memory conditions) rsyslogd somehow remains active. Of course,
it might loose a message or two, but at least it does not abort and it
can also recover when the condition no longer persists.
- fixed a bug that could cause loss of the last message received
immediately before rsyslogd was terminated.
- added comments on thread-safety of global variables in syslogd.c
- fixed a small bug: spurios printf() when TCP syslog was used
- fixed a bug that causes rsyslogd to dump core on termination when one
of the selector lines did not receive a message during the run (very
unlikely)
- fixed an one-too-low memory allocation in the TCP sender. Could result
in rsyslogd dumping core.
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