Re: change to syslog to allow specifying prot to send to..

Duh, that would be "port" not "prot"


Julian Elischer wrote:

> Does anyone think that  this would be useful?
>
> the syslog.conf line would look like:
>
>
> *.*                         _at_logger.mynet.com:823
>
> Index: syslogd.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/freebsd/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.59.2.28
> diff -u -r1.59.2.28 syslogd.c
> --- syslogd.c   29 Feb 2004 20:59:19 -0000      1.59.2.28
> +++ syslogd.c   5 Apr 2006 00:33:14 -0000
> _at__at_ -168,7 +168,7 _at__at_
>                struct {
>                        char    f_hname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
>                        struct addrinfo *f_addr;
> -
> +                       u_short port;
>                } f_forw;               /* forwarding address */
>                char    f_fname[MAXPATHLEN];
>                struct {
> _at__at_ -1749,14 +1749,30 _at__at_
>                p++;
>
>        switch (*p) {
> +               char * tp;
> +               char *tp2;
>        case '_at_':
> -               (void)strlcpy(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, ++p,
> +               /*
> +                * scan forward to see if there is a port defined.
> +                */
> +               tp2 = NULL;
> +               tp = ++p;
> +               while (*tp && (*tp++ != ':')) ;
> +               if (*tp == ':') {
> +                       *tp++ = '\0';
> +                       if (*tp) {
> +                               tp2 = tp;
> +                       }
> +               }
> +
> +               (void)strlcpy(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, p,
>                        sizeof(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname));
> +               if (tp2) *--tp = ':';
>                memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
>                hints.ai_family = family;
>                hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
> -               error = getaddrinfo(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, "syslog", 
> &hints,
> -                                   &res);
> +               error = getaddrinfo(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname,
> +                               tp2 ? tp2: "syslog", &hints, &res);
>                if (error) {
>                        logerror(gai_strerror(error));
>                        break;
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