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@@ -1,170 +1,5 @@ -Version 1.3 Patch Level 3 - -General. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Update to documentation including klogd.8 manpage to reflect new features. - -Included patch for modules-2.0.0 package to provide support for signalling -klogd of changes in kernel module status. - -klogd --------------------------------------------------------------------- -Provided support for signalling klogd to reload static and kernel module -symbol information via SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. - -Implemented -p switch to cause a reload of kernel module symbol information -whenever a protection fault is detected. - -Informative message is printed whenever klogd state change occurs. - -Added -i and -I switches to signal the currently executing klogd daemon -to reload symbold information. - - -Version 1.3 Patch Level 2 - -General. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Added oops.c and oops_test.c. Oops.c implements a kernel loadable module -which will generate a general protection fault. The oops_test.c program -generates a test program for exercising the loadable module. - -syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Fixed bug resulting in file descriptors being orphaned when syslogd was -initialized via signal handler. - -klogd --------------------------------------------------------------------- -Bug fix to prevent errors when reading symbol tables with 64 bit addresses. - -Added support for debugging of protection faults occuring in kernel -loadable modules. - - -Version 1.3 Patch Level 1 - -General. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Cleanups in the Makefile. - -Patches to support compilation in the ALPHA environment. I have not -been able to test these personally so if anyone has any feedback I -would be interested in hearing from the Linux ALPHA community. - -Spelling and grammar corrections in the man pages. - -syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Patch to fix parsing of hostnames in syslogd.c. - -The return value of gethostbyname is now properly checked. This should -fix the problems with core dumps when name resolution failed. - -Bounds error fixed when setting the file descriptors for UNIX domain -sockets. - -klogd --------------------------------------------------------------------- -Error checking and reporting enhanced. I have a couple of reports -that klogd is experiencing errors when reading the /proc filesystem. -Any additional information would be appreciated. - -The sys_syslog function has been renamed to ksyslog. This was in a -set patches for ALPHA support so I am assuming that this is necessary -for that environment - - -Version 1.3 - -Numerous changes, performance enhancements, code cleanups and bug fixes. -Too many to individually summarize. Have a look at the top of each -source file for more information. - -** Default behavior of sysklogd is not to accept any message that -is sent via syslog/udp. To allow remote reception add -r to the -command-line arguments. - -** Spaces are now accepted in the syslog configuration file. This -should be a real crowd pleaser. - -syslogd now uses dynamic allocation of logging output descriptors. -There is no longer a static limit on the number of log destinations -that can be defined. - -klogd supports on-the-fly kernel address to symbol translations. -This requires that a valid kernel symbol map be found at execution. - -** The default level for console log messages was changed to 6. This -means that kernel messages with a priority less than or equal to 5 -(KERN_NOTICE) will be logged to the console. - - This item has been flagged because it results in a behavior - change which will be different if version 1.3 replaces an - existing 1.2 binary. Linus strongly suggested that this - behavior be changed and in the 1.3.3x kernels Linus in fact - made it impossible to set the console log level lower than - about 5. - - There were good reasons from his perspective for doing so. - The most troublesome being that user's of packaged - distributions were not able to generate register dumps with - the kernel debugging keys, most notably altgr-SCRLCK. - - If a kernels prior to 1.3.3x are being used the klogd daemon - invocation must be changed to something like: klogd -c 1 - - This will turn off logging of kernel messages to the console. - If you understand the ramifications of this the 1.3.3x kernels - can be patched to allow the suppression of console log - messages. It is important to be cognizant of the effects of - these changes. None the least of which is that Linus and Alan - will yell at you if you complain about not being able to - generate kernel debugging information.. :-) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 1.2 -Fixes to both klogd and syslogd so that the package will compile without -errors due to the vararg procedures. - -Modified pid files produced so that the names of the files are -klogd.pid and syslogd.pid respectively. - -Fixed bug in klogd which prevented output from being directed to a file -when the program was compiled to auto-background itself. In the -auto-backgrounding configuration the forked process was closing all its -file descriptors which was causing the errant behavior. - -Modified signal handling in klogd so that all signal are set to ignored -before establishing specific signal handlers. - -Fixed bug in syslogd which was causing a delay in opening of the /dev/log -UNIX domain socket. This should correct the race condition which was -preventing klogd from properly logging kernel messages when the two -daemons were started in rapid succession. - -Modified the closing/opening of file descriptors when syslogd was -compiled with auto-backgrounding support. Closes the potential for -a somewhat obscure bug caused by the /dev/log socket being opened on -fd 0. - -Changed the names of the man pages from an extension of 1 to 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 1.1 -Extensive changes and additional functionality added to klogd. Please -see sources and man-pages for documentation. - -Fixed bugs in both syslogd and klogd with respect to fragmented -message re-assembly. Bootup messages should now be display properly. - -Fixed bug in syslogd which prevented proper logging of messages with -priority classes of none and emerg. - -Fixed bug which caused core dump when messages were logged to users. -Also fixed bug with messages to login type of LOGIN. - -Fixed problem with zombies being left when messages were logged to -multiple users. - -Enhanced functionality of syslog_tst program. - -Added man-pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 1.0 +Version 0.8.0 -Initial release. +Initial testing release. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |