[New]: change to syslog to allow specifying prot to send to..

Julian Elischer wrote:

> Does anyone think that  this would be useful?
>
> the syslog.conf line would look like:
>
>
> *.*                         _at_logger.mynet.com:823

Here's a rewritten patch
(against 4.x but the same should apply to current)

comments?

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   17 Apr 2006 07:30:26 -0000
_at__at_ -1750,13 +1750,32 _at__at_
 
        switch (*p) {
        case '_at_':
-               (void)strlcpy(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname, ++p,
-                       sizeof(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname));
+               {
+                       char *tp;
+                       /*
+                        * scan forward to see if there is a port defined.
+                        * so we can't use strlcpy..
+                        */
+                       i = sizeof(f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname);
+                       tp = f->f_un.f_forw.f_hname;
+                       p++;
+
+                       while (*p && (*p != ':') && (i-- > 0)) {
+                               *tp++ = *p++;
+                       }
+                       *tp = '\0';
+               }
+               /* See if we copied a domain and have a port */
+               if (*p == ':')
+                       p++;
+               else
+                       p = NULL;
+
                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,
+                               p ? p: "syslog", &hints, &res);
                if (error) {
                        logerror(gai_strerror(error));
                        break;