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1package Sys::Syslog;
2use strict;
3use warnings;
4use warnings::register;
5use Carp;
6use Exporter        ();
7use Fcntl           qw< O_WRONLY >;
8use File::Basename;
9use POSIX           qw< strftime setlocale LC_TIME >;
10use Socket          qw< :all >;
11require 5.005;
12
13
14{   no strict 'vars';
15    $VERSION = '0.32';
16    @ISA     = qw< Exporter >;
17
18    %EXPORT_TAGS = (
19        standard => [qw(openlog syslog closelog setlogmask)],
20        extended => [qw(setlogsock)],
21        macros => [
22            # levels
23            qw(
24                LOG_ALERT LOG_CRIT LOG_DEBUG LOG_EMERG LOG_ERR
25                LOG_INFO LOG_NOTICE LOG_WARNING
26            ),
27
28            # standard facilities
29            qw(
30                LOG_AUTH LOG_AUTHPRIV LOG_CRON LOG_DAEMON LOG_FTP LOG_KERN
31                LOG_LOCAL0 LOG_LOCAL1 LOG_LOCAL2 LOG_LOCAL3 LOG_LOCAL4
32                LOG_LOCAL5 LOG_LOCAL6 LOG_LOCAL7 LOG_LPR LOG_MAIL LOG_NEWS
33                LOG_SYSLOG LOG_USER LOG_UUCP
34            ),
35            # Mac OS X specific facilities
36            qw( LOG_INSTALL LOG_LAUNCHD LOG_NETINFO LOG_RAS LOG_REMOTEAUTH ),
37            # modern BSD specific facilities
38            qw( LOG_CONSOLE LOG_NTP LOG_SECURITY ),
39            # IRIX specific facilities
40            qw( LOG_AUDIT LOG_LFMT ),
41
42            # options
43            qw(
44                LOG_CONS LOG_PID LOG_NDELAY LOG_NOWAIT LOG_ODELAY LOG_PERROR
45            ),
46
47            # others macros
48            qw(
49                LOG_FACMASK LOG_NFACILITIES LOG_PRIMASK
50                LOG_MASK LOG_UPTO
51            ),
52        ],
53    );
54
55    @EXPORT = (
56        @{$EXPORT_TAGS{standard}},
57    );
58
59    @EXPORT_OK = (
60        @{$EXPORT_TAGS{extended}},
61        @{$EXPORT_TAGS{macros}},
62    );
63
64    eval {
65        require XSLoader;
66        XSLoader::load('Sys::Syslog', $VERSION);
67        1
68    } or do {
69        require DynaLoader;
70        push @ISA, 'DynaLoader';
71        bootstrap Sys::Syslog $VERSION;
72    };
73}
74
75
76#
77# Public variables
78#
79use vars qw($host);             # host to send syslog messages to (see notes at end)
80
81#
82# Prototypes
83#
84sub silent_eval (&);
85
86#
87# Global variables
88#
89use vars qw($facility);
90my $connected       = 0;        # flag to indicate if we're connected or not
91my $syslog_send;                # coderef of the function used to send messages
92my $syslog_path     = undef;    # syslog path for "stream" and "unix" mechanisms
93my $syslog_xobj     = undef;    # if defined, holds the external object used to send messages
94my $transmit_ok     = 0;        # flag to indicate if the last message was transmitted
95my $sock_port       = undef;    # socket port
96my $sock_timeout    = 0;        # socket timeout, see below
97my $current_proto   = undef;    # current mechanism used to transmit messages
98my $ident           = '';       # identifiant prepended to each message
99$facility           = '';       # current facility
100my $maskpri         = LOG_UPTO(&LOG_DEBUG);     # current log mask
101
102my %options = (
103    ndelay  => 0,
104    noeol   => 0,
105    nofatal => 0,
106    nonul   => 0,
107    nowait  => 0,
108    perror  => 0,
109    pid     => 0,
110);
111
112# Default is now to first use the native mechanism, so Perl programs
113# behave like other normal Unix programs, then try other mechanisms.
114my @connectMethods = qw(native tcp udp unix pipe stream console);
115if ($^O eq "freebsd" or $^O eq "linux") {
116    @connectMethods = grep { $_ ne 'udp' } @connectMethods;
117}
118
119# And on Win32 systems, we try to use the native mechanism for this
120# platform, the events logger, available through Win32::EventLog.
121EVENTLOG: {
122    my $is_Win32 = $^O =~ /Win32/i;
123
124    if (can_load("Sys::Syslog::Win32", $is_Win32)) {
125        unshift @connectMethods, 'eventlog';
126    }
127}
128
129my @defaultMethods = @connectMethods;
130my @fallbackMethods = ();
131
132# The timeout in connection_ok() was pushed up to 0.25 sec in
133# Sys::Syslog v0.19 in order to address a heisenbug on MacOSX:
134# http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20061211/005961.html
135#
136# However, this also had the effect of slowing this test for
137# all other operating systems, which apparently impacted some
138# users (cf. CPAN-RT #34753). So, in order to make everybody
139# happy, the timeout is now zero by default on all systems
140# except on OSX where it is set to 250 msec, and can be set
141# with the infamous setlogsock() function.
142#
143# Update 2011-08: this issue is also been seen on multiprocessor
144# Debian GNU/kFreeBSD systems. See http://bugs.debian.org/627821
145# and https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69997
146# Also, lowering the delay to 1 ms, which should be enough.
147
148$sock_timeout = 0.001 if $^O =~ /darwin|gnukfreebsd/;
149
150
151# Perl 5.6.0's warnings.pm doesn't have warnings::warnif()
152if (not defined &warnings::warnif) {
153    *warnings::warnif = sub {
154        goto &warnings::warn if warnings::enabled(__PACKAGE__)
155    }
156}
157
158# coderef for a nicer handling of errors
159my $err_sub = $options{nofatal} ? \&warnings::warnif : \&croak;
160
161
162sub AUTOLOAD {
163    # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant()
164    # XS function.
165    no strict 'vars';
166    my $constname;
167    ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
168    croak "Sys::Syslog::constant() not defined" if $constname eq 'constant';
169    my ($error, $val) = constant($constname);
170    croak $error if $error;
171    no strict 'refs';
172    *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val };
173    goto &$AUTOLOAD;
174}
175
176
177sub openlog {
178    ($ident, my $logopt, $facility) = @_;
179
180    # default values
181    $ident    ||= basename($0) || getlogin() || getpwuid($<) || 'syslog';
182    $logopt   ||= '';
183    $facility ||= LOG_USER();
184
185    for my $opt (split /\b/, $logopt) {
186        $options{$opt} = 1 if exists $options{$opt}
187    }
188
189    $err_sub = delete $options{nofatal} ? \&warnings::warnif : \&croak;
190    return 1 unless $options{ndelay};
191    connect_log();
192}
193
194sub closelog {
195    disconnect_log() if $connected;
196    $options{$_} = 0 for keys %options;
197    $facility = $ident = "";
198    $connected = 0;
199    return 1
200}
201
202sub setlogmask {
203    my $oldmask = $maskpri;
204    $maskpri = shift unless $_[0] == 0;
205    $oldmask;
206}
207
208
209my %mechanism = (
210    console => {
211        check   => sub { 1 },
212    },
213    eventlog => {
214        check   => sub { return can_load("Win32::EventLog") },
215        err_msg => "no Win32 API available",
216    },
217    inet => {
218        check   => sub { 1 },
219    },
220    native => {
221        check   => sub { 1 },
222    },
223    pipe => {
224        check   => sub {
225            ($syslog_path) = grep { defined && length && -p && -w _ }
226                                $syslog_path, &_PATH_LOG, "/dev/log";
227            return $syslog_path ? 1 : 0
228        },
229        err_msg => "path not available",
230    },
231    stream => {
232        check   => sub {
233            if (not defined $syslog_path) {
234                my @try = qw(/dev/log /dev/conslog);
235                unshift @try, &_PATH_LOG  if length &_PATH_LOG;
236                ($syslog_path) = grep { -w } @try;
237            }
238            return defined $syslog_path && -w $syslog_path
239        },
240        err_msg => "could not find any writable device",
241    },
242    tcp => {
243        check   => sub {
244            return 1 if defined $sock_port;
245
246            if (getservbyname('syslog', 'tcp') || getservbyname('syslogng', 'tcp')) {
247                $host = $syslog_path;
248                return 1
249            }
250            else {
251                return
252            }
253        },
254        err_msg => "TCP service unavailable",
255    },
256    udp => {
257        check   => sub {
258            return 1 if defined $sock_port;
259
260            if (getservbyname('syslog', 'udp')) {
261                $host = $syslog_path;
262                return 1
263            }
264            else {
265                return
266            }
267        },
268        err_msg => "UDP service unavailable",
269    },
270    unix => {
271        check   => sub {
272            my @try = ($syslog_path, &_PATH_LOG);
273            ($syslog_path) = grep { defined && length && -w } @try;
274            return defined $syslog_path && -w $syslog_path
275        },
276        err_msg => "path not available",
277    },
278);
279
280sub setlogsock {
281    my %opt;
282
283    # handle arguments
284    # - old API: setlogsock($sock_type, $sock_path, $sock_timeout)
285    # - new API: setlogsock(\%options)
286    croak "setlogsock(): Invalid number of arguments"
287        unless @_ >= 1 and @_ <= 3;
288
289    if (my $ref = ref $_[0]) {
290        if ($ref eq "HASH") {
291            %opt = %{ $_[0] };
292            croak "setlogsock(): No argument given" unless keys %opt;
293        }
294        elsif ($ref eq "ARRAY") {
295            @opt{qw< type path timeout >} = @_;
296        }
297        else {
298            croak "setlogsock(): Unexpected \L$ref\E reference"
299        }
300    }
301    else {
302        @opt{qw< type path timeout >} = @_;
303    }
304
305    # check socket type, remove invalid ones
306    my $diag_invalid_type = "setlogsock(): Invalid type%s; must be one of "
307                          . join ", ", map { "'$_'" } sort keys %mechanism;
308    croak sprintf $diag_invalid_type, "" unless defined $opt{type};
309    my @sock_types = ref $opt{type} eq "ARRAY" ? @{$opt{type}} : ($opt{type});
310    my @tmp;
311
312    for my $sock_type (@sock_types) {
313        carp sprintf $diag_invalid_type, " '$sock_type'" and next
314            unless exists $mechanism{$sock_type};
315        push @tmp, "tcp", "udp" and next  if $sock_type eq "inet";
316        push @tmp, $sock_type;
317    }
318
319    @sock_types = @tmp;
320
321    # set global options
322    $syslog_path  = $opt{path}    if defined $opt{path};
323    $host         = $opt{host}    if defined $opt{host};
324    $sock_timeout = $opt{timeout} if defined $opt{timeout};
325    $sock_port    = $opt{port}    if defined $opt{port};
326
327    disconnect_log() if $connected;
328    $transmit_ok = 0;
329    @fallbackMethods = ();
330    @connectMethods = ();
331    my $found = 0;
332
333    # check each given mechanism and test if it can be used on the current system
334    for my $sock_type (@sock_types) {
335        if ( $mechanism{$sock_type}{check}->() ) {
336            push @connectMethods, $sock_type;
337            $found = 1;
338        }
339        else {
340            warnings::warnif("setlogsock(): type='$sock_type': "
341                           . $mechanism{$sock_type}{err_msg});
342        }
343    }
344
345    # if no mechanism worked from the given ones, use the default ones
346    @connectMethods = @defaultMethods unless @connectMethods;
347
348    return $found;
349}
350
351sub syslog {
352    my ($priority, $mask, @args) = @_;
353    my ($message, $buf);
354    my (@words, $num, $numpri, $numfac, $sum);
355    my $failed = undef;
356    my $fail_time = undef;
357    my $error = $!;
358
359    # if $ident is undefined, it means openlog() wasn't previously called
360    # so do it now in order to have sensible defaults
361    openlog() unless $ident;
362
363    local $facility = $facility;    # may need to change temporarily.
364
365    croak "syslog: expecting argument \$priority" unless defined $priority;
366    croak "syslog: expecting argument \$format"   unless defined $mask;
367
368    if ($priority =~ /^\d+$/) {
369        $numpri = LOG_PRI($priority);
370        $numfac = LOG_FAC($priority) << 3;
371    }
372    elsif ($priority =~ /^\w+/) {
373        # Allow "level" or "level|facility".
374        @words = split /\W+/, $priority, 2;
375
376        undef $numpri;
377        undef $numfac;
378
379        for my $word (@words) {
380            next if length $word == 0;
381
382            # Translate word to number.
383            $num = xlate($word);
384
385            if ($num < 0) {
386                croak "syslog: invalid level/facility: $word"
387            }
388            elsif ($num <= LOG_PRIMASK() and $word ne "kern") {
389                croak "syslog: too many levels given: $word"
390                    if defined $numpri;
391                $numpri = $num;
392            }
393            else {
394                croak "syslog: too many facilities given: $word"
395                    if defined $numfac;
396                $facility = $word if $word =~ /^[A-Za-z]/;
397                $numfac = $num;
398            }
399        }
400    }
401    else {
402        croak "syslog: invalid level/facility: $priority"
403    }
404
405    croak "syslog: level must be given" unless defined $numpri;
406
407    # don't log if priority is below mask level
408    return 0 unless LOG_MASK($numpri) & $maskpri;
409
410    if (not defined $numfac) {  # Facility not specified in this call.
411	$facility = 'user' unless $facility;
412	$numfac = xlate($facility);
413    }
414
415    connect_log() unless $connected;
416
417    if ($mask =~ /%m/) {
418        # escape percent signs for sprintf()
419        $error =~ s/%/%%/g if @args;
420        # replace %m with $error, if preceded by an even number of percent signs
421        $mask =~ s/(?<!%)((?:%%)*)%m/$1$error/g;
422    }
423
424    $mask .= "\n" unless $mask =~ /\n$/;
425    $message = @args ? sprintf($mask, @args) : $mask;
426
427    if ($current_proto eq 'native') {
428        $buf = $message;
429    }
430    elsif ($current_proto eq 'eventlog') {
431        $buf = $message;
432    }
433    else {
434        my $whoami = $ident;
435        $whoami .= "[$$]" if $options{pid};
436
437        $sum = $numpri + $numfac;
438        my $oldlocale = setlocale(LC_TIME);
439        setlocale(LC_TIME, 'C');
440        my $timestamp = strftime "%b %d %H:%M:%S", localtime;
441        setlocale(LC_TIME, $oldlocale);
442
443        # construct the stream that will be transmitted
444        $buf = "<$sum>$timestamp $whoami: $message";
445
446        # add (or not) a newline
447        $buf .= "\n" if !$options{noeol} and rindex($buf, "\n") == -1;
448
449        # add (or not) a NUL character
450        $buf .= "\0" if !$options{nonul};
451    }
452
453    # handle PERROR option
454    # "native" mechanism already handles it by itself
455    if ($options{perror} and $current_proto ne 'native') {
456        my $whoami = $ident;
457        $whoami .= "[$$]" if $options{pid};
458        print STDERR "$whoami: $message\n";
459    }
460
461    # it's possible that we'll get an error from sending
462    # (e.g. if method is UDP and there is no UDP listener,
463    # then we'll get ECONNREFUSED on the send). So what we
464    # want to do at this point is to fallback onto a different
465    # connection method.
466    while (scalar @fallbackMethods || $syslog_send) {
467	if ($failed && (time - $fail_time) > 60) {
468	    # it's been a while... maybe things have been fixed
469	    @fallbackMethods = ();
470	    disconnect_log();
471	    $transmit_ok = 0; # make it look like a fresh attempt
472	    connect_log();
473        }
474
475	if ($connected && !connection_ok()) {
476	    # Something was OK, but has now broken. Remember coz we'll
477	    # want to go back to what used to be OK.
478	    $failed = $current_proto unless $failed;
479	    $fail_time = time;
480	    disconnect_log();
481	}
482
483	connect_log() unless $connected;
484	$failed = undef if ($current_proto && $failed && $current_proto eq $failed);
485
486	if ($syslog_send) {
487            if ($syslog_send->($buf, $numpri, $numfac)) {
488		$transmit_ok++;
489		return 1;
490	    }
491	    # typically doesn't happen, since errors are rare from write().
492	    disconnect_log();
493	}
494    }
495    # could not send, could not fallback onto a working
496    # connection method. Lose.
497    return 0;
498}
499
500sub _syslog_send_console {
501    my ($buf) = @_;
502
503    # The console print is a method which could block
504    # so we do it in a child process and always return success
505    # to the caller.
506    if (my $pid = fork) {
507
508	if ($options{nowait}) {
509	    return 1;
510	} else {
511	    if (waitpid($pid, 0) >= 0) {
512	    	return ($? >> 8);
513	    } else {
514		# it's possible that the caller has other
515		# plans for SIGCHLD, so let's not interfere
516		return 1;
517	    }
518	}
519    } else {
520        if (open(CONS, ">/dev/console")) {
521	    my $ret = print CONS $buf . "\r";  # XXX: should this be \x0A ?
522	    POSIX::_exit $ret if defined $pid;
523	    close CONS;
524	}
525
526	POSIX::_exit if defined $pid;
527    }
528}
529
530sub _syslog_send_stream {
531    my ($buf) = @_;
532    # XXX: this only works if the OS stream implementation makes a write
533    # look like a putmsg() with simple header. For instance it works on
534    # Solaris 8 but not Solaris 7.
535    # To be correct, it should use a STREAMS API, but perl doesn't have one.
536    return syswrite(SYSLOG, $buf, length($buf));
537}
538
539sub _syslog_send_pipe {
540    my ($buf) = @_;
541    return print SYSLOG $buf;
542}
543
544sub _syslog_send_socket {
545    my ($buf) = @_;
546    return syswrite(SYSLOG, $buf, length($buf));
547    #return send(SYSLOG, $buf, 0);
548}
549
550sub _syslog_send_native {
551    my ($buf, $numpri, $numfac) = @_;
552    syslog_xs($numpri|$numfac, $buf);
553    return 1;
554}
555
556
557# xlate()
558# -----
559# private function to translate names to numeric values
560#
561sub xlate {
562    my ($name) = @_;
563
564    return $name+0 if $name =~ /^\s*\d+\s*$/;
565    $name = uc $name;
566    $name = "LOG_$name" unless $name =~ /^LOG_/;
567
568    # ExtUtils::Constant 0.20 introduced a new way to implement
569    # constants, called ProxySubs.  When it was used to generate
570    # the C code, the constant() function no longer returns the
571    # correct value.  Therefore, we first try a direct call to
572    # constant(), and if the value is an error we try to call the
573    # constant by its full name.
574    my $value = constant($name);
575
576    if (index($value, "not a valid") >= 0) {
577        $name = "Sys::Syslog::$name";
578        $value = eval { no strict "refs"; &$name };
579        $value = $@ unless defined $value;
580    }
581
582    $value = -1 if index($value, "not a valid") >= 0;
583
584    return defined $value ? $value : -1;
585}
586
587
588# connect_log()
589# -----------
590# This function acts as a kind of front-end: it tries to connect to
591# a syslog service using the selected methods, trying each one in the
592# selected order.
593#
594sub connect_log {
595    @fallbackMethods = @connectMethods unless scalar @fallbackMethods;
596
597    if ($transmit_ok && $current_proto) {
598        # Retry what we were on, because it has worked in the past.
599	unshift(@fallbackMethods, $current_proto);
600    }
601
602    $connected = 0;
603    my @errs = ();
604    my $proto = undef;
605
606    while ($proto = shift @fallbackMethods) {
607	no strict 'refs';
608	my $fn = "connect_$proto";
609	$connected = &$fn(\@errs) if defined &$fn;
610	last if $connected;
611    }
612
613    $transmit_ok = 0;
614    if ($connected) {
615	$current_proto = $proto;
616        my ($old) = select(SYSLOG); $| = 1; select($old);
617    } else {
618	@fallbackMethods = ();
619        $err_sub->(join "\n\t- ", "no connection to syslog available", @errs);
620        return undef;
621    }
622}
623
624sub connect_tcp {
625    my ($errs) = @_;
626
627    my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
628    if (!defined $proto) {
629	push @$errs, "getprotobyname failed for tcp";
630	return 0;
631    }
632
633    my $port = $sock_port || getservbyname('syslog', 'tcp');
634    $port = getservbyname('syslogng', 'tcp') unless defined $port;
635    if (!defined $port) {
636	push @$errs, "getservbyname failed for syslog/tcp and syslogng/tcp";
637	return 0;
638    }
639
640    my $addr;
641    if (defined $host) {
642        $addr = inet_aton($host);
643        if (!$addr) {
644	    push @$errs, "can't lookup $host";
645	    return 0;
646	}
647    } else {
648        $addr = INADDR_LOOPBACK;
649    }
650    $addr = sockaddr_in($port, $addr);
651
652    if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto)) {
653	push @$errs, "tcp socket: $!";
654	return 0;
655    }
656
657    setsockopt(SYSLOG, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, 1);
658    if (silent_eval { IPPROTO_TCP() }) {
659        # These constants don't exist in 5.005. They were added in 1999
660        setsockopt(SYSLOG, IPPROTO_TCP(), TCP_NODELAY(), 1);
661    }
662    if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) {
663	push @$errs, "tcp connect: $!";
664	return 0;
665    }
666
667    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket;
668
669    return 1;
670}
671
672sub connect_udp {
673    my ($errs) = @_;
674
675    my $proto = getprotobyname('udp');
676    if (!defined $proto) {
677	push @$errs, "getprotobyname failed for udp";
678	return 0;
679    }
680
681    my $port = $sock_port || getservbyname('syslog', 'udp');
682    if (!defined $port) {
683	push @$errs, "getservbyname failed for syslog/udp";
684	return 0;
685    }
686
687    my $addr;
688    if (defined $host) {
689        $addr = inet_aton($host);
690        if (!$addr) {
691	    push @$errs, "can't lookup $host";
692	    return 0;
693	}
694    } else {
695        $addr = INADDR_LOOPBACK;
696    }
697    $addr = sockaddr_in($port, $addr);
698
699    if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, $proto)) {
700	push @$errs, "udp socket: $!";
701	return 0;
702    }
703    if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) {
704	push @$errs, "udp connect: $!";
705	return 0;
706    }
707
708    # We want to check that the UDP connect worked. However the only
709    # way to do that is to send a message and see if an ICMP is returned
710    _syslog_send_socket("");
711    if (!connection_ok()) {
712	push @$errs, "udp connect: nobody listening";
713	return 0;
714    }
715
716    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket;
717
718    return 1;
719}
720
721sub connect_stream {
722    my ($errs) = @_;
723    # might want syslog_path to be variable based on syslog.h (if only
724    # it were in there!)
725    $syslog_path = '/dev/conslog' unless defined $syslog_path;
726    if (!-w $syslog_path) {
727	push @$errs, "stream $syslog_path is not writable";
728	return 0;
729    }
730    if (!sysopen(SYSLOG, $syslog_path, O_WRONLY, 0400)) {
731	push @$errs, "stream can't open $syslog_path: $!";
732	return 0;
733    }
734    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_stream;
735    return 1;
736}
737
738sub connect_pipe {
739    my ($errs) = @_;
740
741    $syslog_path ||= &_PATH_LOG || "/dev/log";
742
743    if (not -w $syslog_path) {
744        push @$errs, "$syslog_path is not writable";
745        return 0;
746    }
747
748    if (not open(SYSLOG, ">$syslog_path")) {
749        push @$errs, "can't write to $syslog_path: $!";
750        return 0;
751    }
752
753    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_pipe;
754
755    return 1;
756}
757
758sub connect_unix {
759    my ($errs) = @_;
760
761    $syslog_path ||= _PATH_LOG() if length _PATH_LOG();
762
763    if (not defined $syslog_path) {
764        push @$errs, "_PATH_LOG not available in syslog.h and no user-supplied socket path";
765	return 0;
766    }
767
768    if (not (-S $syslog_path or -c _)) {
769        push @$errs, "$syslog_path is not a socket";
770	return 0;
771    }
772
773    my $addr = sockaddr_un($syslog_path);
774    if (!$addr) {
775	push @$errs, "can't locate $syslog_path";
776	return 0;
777    }
778    if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) {
779        push @$errs, "unix stream socket: $!";
780	return 0;
781    }
782
783    if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) {
784        if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) {
785	    push @$errs, "unix dgram socket: $!";
786	    return 0;
787	}
788        if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) {
789	    push @$errs, "unix dgram connect: $!";
790	    return 0;
791	}
792    }
793
794    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket;
795
796    return 1;
797}
798
799sub connect_native {
800    my ($errs) = @_;
801    my $logopt = 0;
802
803    # reconstruct the numeric equivalent of the options
804    for my $opt (keys %options) {
805        $logopt += xlate($opt) if $options{$opt}
806    }
807
808    openlog_xs($ident, $logopt, xlate($facility));
809    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_native;
810
811    return 1;
812}
813
814sub connect_eventlog {
815    my ($errs) = @_;
816
817    $syslog_xobj = Sys::Syslog::Win32::_install();
818    $syslog_send = \&Sys::Syslog::Win32::_syslog_send;
819
820    return 1;
821}
822
823sub connect_console {
824    my ($errs) = @_;
825    if (!-w '/dev/console') {
826	push @$errs, "console is not writable";
827	return 0;
828    }
829    $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_console;
830    return 1;
831}
832
833# To test if the connection is still good, we need to check if any
834# errors are present on the connection. The errors will not be raised
835# by a write. Instead, sockets are made readable and the next read
836# would cause the error to be returned. Unfortunately the syslog
837# 'protocol' never provides anything for us to read. But with
838# judicious use of select(), we can see if it would be readable...
839sub connection_ok {
840    return 1 if defined $current_proto and (
841        $current_proto eq 'native' or $current_proto eq 'console'
842        or $current_proto eq 'eventlog'
843    );
844
845    my $rin = '';
846    vec($rin, fileno(SYSLOG), 1) = 1;
847    my $ret = select $rin, undef, $rin, $sock_timeout;
848    return ($ret ? 0 : 1);
849}
850
851sub disconnect_log {
852    $connected = 0;
853    $syslog_send = undef;
854
855    if (defined $current_proto and $current_proto eq 'native') {
856        closelog_xs();
857        unshift @fallbackMethods, $current_proto;
858        $current_proto = undef;
859        return 1;
860    }
861    elsif (defined $current_proto and $current_proto eq 'eventlog') {
862        $syslog_xobj->Close();
863        unshift @fallbackMethods, $current_proto;
864        $current_proto = undef;
865        return 1;
866    }
867
868    return close SYSLOG;
869}
870
871
872#
873# Wrappers around eval() that makes sure that nobody, and I say NOBODY,
874# ever knows that I wanted to test if something was here or not.
875# It is needed because some applications are trying to be too smart,
876# do it wrong, and it ends up in EPIC FAIL.
877# Yes I'm speaking of YOU, SpamAssassin.
878#
879sub silent_eval (&) {
880    local($SIG{__DIE__}, $SIG{__WARN__}, $@);
881    return eval { $_[0]->() }
882}
883
884sub can_load {
885    my ($module, $verbose) = @_;
886    local($SIG{__DIE__}, $SIG{__WARN__}, $@);
887    my $loaded = eval "use $module; 1";
888    warn $@ if not $loaded and $verbose;
889    return $loaded
890}
891
892
893"Eighth Rule: read the documentation."
894
895__END__
896
897=head1 NAME
898
899Sys::Syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
900
901=head1 VERSION
902
903This is the documentation of version 0.32
904
905=head1 SYNOPSIS
906
907    use Sys::Syslog;                        # all except setlogsock()
908    use Sys::Syslog qw(:standard :macros);  # standard functions & macros
909
910    openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility);    # don't forget this
911    syslog($priority, $format, @args);
912    $oldmask = setlogmask($mask_priority);
913    closelog();
914
915
916=head1 DESCRIPTION
917
918C<Sys::Syslog> is an interface to the UNIX C<syslog(3)> program.
919Call C<syslog()> with a string priority and a list of C<printf()> args
920just like C<syslog(3)>.
921
922
923=head1 EXPORTS
924
925C<Sys::Syslog> exports the following C<Exporter> tags:
926
927=over 4
928
929=item *
930
931C<:standard> exports the standard C<syslog(3)> functions:
932
933    openlog closelog setlogmask syslog
934
935=item *
936
937C<:extended> exports the Perl specific functions for C<syslog(3)>:
938
939    setlogsock
940
941=item *
942
943C<:macros> exports the symbols corresponding to most of your C<syslog(3)>
944macros and the C<LOG_UPTO()> and C<LOG_MASK()> functions.
945See L<"CONSTANTS"> for the supported constants and their meaning.
946
947=back
948
949By default, C<Sys::Syslog> exports the symbols from the C<:standard> tag.
950
951
952=head1 FUNCTIONS
953
954=over 4
955
956=item B<openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility)>
957
958Opens the syslog.
959C<$ident> is prepended to every message.  C<$logopt> contains zero or
960more of the options detailed below.  C<$facility> specifies the part
961of the system to report about, for example C<LOG_USER> or C<LOG_LOCAL0>:
962see L<"Facilities"> for a list of well-known facilities, and your
963C<syslog(3)> documentation for the facilities available in your system.
964Check L<"SEE ALSO"> for useful links. Facility can be given as a string
965or a numeric macro.
966
967This function will croak if it can't connect to the syslog daemon.
968
969Note that C<openlog()> now takes three arguments, just like C<openlog(3)>.
970
971B<You should use C<openlog()> before calling C<syslog()>.>
972
973B<Options>
974
975=over 4
976
977=item *
978
979C<cons> - This option is ignored, since the failover mechanism will drop
980down to the console automatically if all other media fail.
981
982=item *
983
984C<ndelay> - Open the connection immediately (normally, the connection is
985opened when the first message is logged).
986
987=item *
988
989C<noeol> - When set to true, no end of line character (C<\n>) will be
990appended to the message. This can be useful for some buggy syslog daemons.
991
992=item *
993
994C<nofatal> - When set to true, C<openlog()> and C<syslog()> will only
995emit warnings instead of dying if the connection to the syslog can't
996be established.
997
998=item *
999
1000C<nonul> - When set to true, no C<NUL> character (C<\0>) will be
1001appended to the message. This can be useful for some buggy syslog daemons.
1002
1003=item *
1004
1005C<nowait> - Don't wait for child processes that may have been created
1006while logging the message.  (The GNU C library does not create a child
1007process, so this option has no effect on Linux.)
1008
1009=item *
1010
1011C<perror> - Write the message to standard error output as well to the
1012system log (added in C<Sys::Syslo> 0.22).
1013
1014=item *
1015
1016C<pid> - Include PID with each message.
1017
1018=back
1019
1020B<Examples>
1021
1022Open the syslog with options C<ndelay> and C<pid>, and with facility C<LOCAL0>:
1023
1024    openlog($name, "ndelay,pid", "local0");
1025
1026Same thing, but this time using the macro corresponding to C<LOCAL0>:
1027
1028    openlog($name, "ndelay,pid", LOG_LOCAL0);
1029
1030
1031=item B<syslog($priority, $message)>
1032
1033=item B<syslog($priority, $format, @args)>
1034
1035If C<$priority> permits, logs C<$message> or C<sprintf($format, @args)>
1036with the addition that C<%m> in $message or C<$format> is replaced with
1037C<"$!"> (the latest error message).
1038
1039C<$priority> can specify a level, or a level and a facility.  Levels and
1040facilities can be given as strings or as macros.  When using the C<eventlog>
1041mechanism, priorities C<DEBUG> and C<INFO> are mapped to event type
1042C<informational>, C<NOTICE> and C<WARNING> to C<warning> and C<ERR> to
1043C<EMERG> to C<error>.
1044
1045If you didn't use C<openlog()> before using C<syslog()>, C<syslog()> will
1046try to guess the C<$ident> by extracting the shortest prefix of
1047C<$format> that ends in a C<":">.
1048
1049B<Examples>
1050
1051    # informational level
1052    syslog("info", $message);
1053    syslog(LOG_INFO, $message);
1054
1055    # information level, Local0 facility
1056    syslog("info|local0", $message);
1057    syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL0, $message);
1058
1059=over 4
1060
1061=item B<Note>
1062
1063C<Sys::Syslog> version v0.07 and older passed the C<$message> as the
1064formatting string to C<sprintf()> even when no formatting arguments
1065were provided.  If the code calling C<syslog()> might execute with
1066older versions of this module, make sure to call the function as
1067C<syslog($priority, "%s", $message)> instead of C<syslog($priority,
1068$message)>.  This protects against hostile formatting sequences that
1069might show up if $message contains tainted data.
1070
1071=back
1072
1073
1074=item B<setlogmask($mask_priority)>
1075
1076Sets the log mask for the current process to C<$mask_priority> and
1077returns the old mask.  If the mask argument is 0, the current log mask
1078is not modified.  See L<"Levels"> for the list of available levels.
1079You can use the C<LOG_UPTO()> function to allow all levels up to a
1080given priority (but it only accept the numeric macros as arguments).
1081
1082B<Examples>
1083
1084Only log errors:
1085
1086    setlogmask( LOG_MASK(LOG_ERR) );
1087
1088Log everything except informational messages:
1089
1090    setlogmask( ~(LOG_MASK(LOG_INFO)) );
1091
1092Log critical messages, errors and warnings:
1093
1094    setlogmask( LOG_MASK(LOG_CRIT)
1095              | LOG_MASK(LOG_ERR)
1096              | LOG_MASK(LOG_WARNING) );
1097
1098Log all messages up to debug:
1099
1100    setlogmask( LOG_UPTO(LOG_DEBUG) );
1101
1102
1103=item B<setlogsock()>
1104
1105Sets the socket type and options to be used for the next call to C<openlog()>
1106or C<syslog()>.  Returns true on success, C<undef> on failure.
1107
1108Being Perl-specific, this function has evolved along time.  It can currently
1109be called as follow:
1110
1111=over
1112
1113=item *
1114
1115C<setlogsock($sock_type)>
1116
1117=item *
1118
1119C<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location)> (added in Perl 5.004_02)
1120
1121=item *
1122
1123C<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location, $sock_timeout)> (added in
1124C<Sys::Syslog> 0.25)
1125
1126=item *
1127
1128C<setlogsock(\%options)> (added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.28)
1129
1130=back
1131
1132The available options are:
1133
1134=over
1135
1136=item *
1137
1138C<type> - equivalent to C<$sock_type>, selects the socket type (or
1139"mechanism").  An array reference can be passed to specify several
1140mechanisms to try, in the given order.
1141
1142=item *
1143
1144C<path> - equivalent to C<$stream_location>, sets the stream location.
1145Defaults to standard Unix location, or C<_PATH_LOG>.
1146
1147=item *
1148
1149C<timeout> - equivalent to C<$sock_timeout>, sets the socket timeout
1150in seconds.  Defaults to 0 on all systems except S<Mac OS X> where it
1151is set to 0.25 sec.
1152
1153=item *
1154
1155C<host> - sets the hostname to send the messages to.  Defaults to
1156the local host.
1157
1158=item *
1159
1160C<port> - sets the TCP or UDP port to connect to.  Defaults to the
1161first standard syslog port available on the system.
1162
1163=back
1164
1165
1166The available mechanisms are:
1167
1168=over
1169
1170=item *
1171
1172C<"native"> - use the native C functions from your C<syslog(3)> library
1173(added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.15).
1174
1175=item *
1176
1177C<"eventlog"> - send messages to the Win32 events logger (Win32 only;
1178added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.19).
1179
1180=item *
1181
1182C<"tcp"> - connect to a TCP socket, on the C<syslog/tcp> or C<syslogng/tcp>
1183service.  See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options.
1184
1185=item *
1186
1187C<"udp"> - connect to a UDP socket, on the C<syslog/udp> service.
1188See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options.
1189
1190=item *
1191
1192C<"inet"> - connect to an INET socket, either TCP or UDP, tried in that
1193order.  See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options.
1194
1195=item *
1196
1197C<"unix"> - connect to a UNIX domain socket (in some systems a character
1198special device).  The name of that socket is given by the C<path> option
1199or, if omitted, the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your
1200system defines it), F</dev/log> or F</dev/conslog>, whichever is writable.
1201
1202=item *
1203
1204C<"stream"> - connect to the stream indicated by the C<path> option, or,
1205if omitted, the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your system
1206defines it), F</dev/log> or F</dev/conslog>, whichever is writable.  For
1207example Solaris and IRIX system may prefer C<"stream"> instead of C<"unix">.
1208
1209=item *
1210
1211C<"pipe"> - connect to the named pipe indicated by the C<path> option,
1212or, if omitted, to the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your
1213system defines it), or F</dev/log> (added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.21).
1214HP-UX is a system which uses such a named pipe.
1215
1216=item *
1217
1218C<"console"> - send messages directly to the console, as for the C<"cons">
1219option of C<openlog()>.
1220
1221=back
1222
1223The default is to try C<native>, C<tcp>, C<udp>, C<unix>, C<pipe>, C<stream>,
1224C<console>.
1225Under systems with the Win32 API, C<eventlog> will be added as the first
1226mechanism to try if C<Win32::EventLog> is available.
1227
1228Giving an invalid value for C<$sock_type> will C<croak>.
1229
1230B<Examples>
1231
1232Select the UDP socket mechanism:
1233
1234    setlogsock("udp");
1235
1236Send messages using the TCP socket mechanism on a custom port:
1237
1238    setlogsock({ type => "tcp", port => 2486 });
1239
1240Send messages to a remote host using the TCP socket mechanism:
1241
1242    setlogsock({ type => "tcp", host => $loghost });
1243
1244Try the native, UDP socket then UNIX domain socket mechanisms:
1245
1246    setlogsock(["native", "udp", "unix"]);
1247
1248=over
1249
1250=item B<Note>
1251
1252Now that the "native" mechanism is supported by C<Sys::Syslog> and selected
1253by default, the use of the C<setlogsock()> function is discouraged because
1254other mechanisms are less portable across operating systems.  Authors of
1255modules and programs that use this function, especially its cargo-cult form
1256C<setlogsock("unix")>, are advised to remove any occurence of it unless they
1257specifically want to use a given mechanism (like TCP or UDP to connect to
1258a remote host).
1259
1260=back
1261
1262=item B<closelog()>
1263
1264Closes the log file and returns true on success.
1265
1266=back
1267
1268
1269=head1 THE RULES OF SYS::SYSLOG
1270
1271I<The First Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1272You do not call C<setlogsock>.
1273
1274I<The Second Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1275You B<do not> call C<setlogsock>.
1276
1277I<The Third Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1278The program crashes, C<die>s, calls C<closelog>, the log is over.
1279
1280I<The Fourth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1281One facility, one priority.
1282
1283I<The Fifth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1284One log at a time.
1285
1286I<The Sixth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1287No C<syslog> before C<openlog>.
1288
1289I<The Seventh Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1290Logs will go on as long as they have to.
1291
1292I<The Eighth, and Final Rule of Sys::Syslog is:>
1293If this is your first use of Sys::Syslog, you must read the doc.
1294
1295
1296=head1 EXAMPLES
1297
1298An example:
1299
1300    openlog($program, 'cons,pid', 'user');
1301    syslog('info', '%s', 'this is another test');
1302    syslog('mail|warning', 'this is a better test: %d', time);
1303    closelog();
1304
1305    syslog('debug', 'this is the last test');
1306
1307Another example:
1308
1309    openlog("$program $$", 'ndelay', 'user');
1310    syslog('notice', 'fooprogram: this is really done');
1311
1312Example of use of C<%m>:
1313
1314    $! = 55;
1315    syslog('info', 'problem was %m');   # %m == $! in syslog(3)
1316
1317Log to UDP port on C<$remotehost> instead of logging locally:
1318
1319    setlogsock("udp", $remotehost);
1320    openlog($program, 'ndelay', 'user');
1321    syslog('info', 'something happened over here');
1322
1323
1324=head1 CONSTANTS
1325
1326=head2 Facilities
1327
1328=over 4
1329
1330=item *
1331
1332C<LOG_AUDIT> - audit daemon (IRIX); falls back to C<LOG_AUTH>
1333
1334=item *
1335
1336C<LOG_AUTH> - security/authorization messages
1337
1338=item *
1339
1340C<LOG_AUTHPRIV> - security/authorization messages (private)
1341
1342=item *
1343
1344C<LOG_CONSOLE> - C</dev/console> output (FreeBSD); falls back to C<LOG_USER>
1345
1346=item *
1347
1348C<LOG_CRON> - clock daemons (B<cron> and B<at>)
1349
1350=item *
1351
1352C<LOG_DAEMON> - system daemons without separate facility value
1353
1354=item *
1355
1356C<LOG_FTP> - FTP daemon
1357
1358=item *
1359
1360C<LOG_KERN> - kernel messages
1361
1362=item *
1363
1364C<LOG_INSTALL> - installer subsystem (Mac OS X); falls back to C<LOG_USER>
1365
1366=item *
1367
1368C<LOG_LAUNCHD> - launchd - general bootstrap daemon (Mac OS X);
1369falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON>
1370
1371=item *
1372
1373C<LOG_LFMT> - logalert facility; falls back to C<LOG_USER>
1374
1375=item *
1376
1377C<LOG_LOCAL0> through C<LOG_LOCAL7> - reserved for local use
1378
1379=item *
1380
1381C<LOG_LPR> - line printer subsystem
1382
1383=item *
1384
1385C<LOG_MAIL> - mail subsystem
1386
1387=item *
1388
1389C<LOG_NETINFO> - NetInfo subsystem (Mac OS X); falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON>
1390
1391=item *
1392
1393C<LOG_NEWS> - USENET news subsystem
1394
1395=item *
1396
1397C<LOG_NTP> - NTP subsystem (FreeBSD, NetBSD); falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON>
1398
1399=item *
1400
1401C<LOG_RAS> - Remote Access Service (VPN / PPP) (Mac OS X);
1402falls back to C<LOG_AUTH>
1403
1404=item *
1405
1406C<LOG_REMOTEAUTH> - remote authentication/authorization (Mac OS X);
1407falls back to C<LOG_AUTH>
1408
1409=item *
1410
1411C<LOG_SECURITY> - security subsystems (firewalling, etc.) (FreeBSD);
1412falls back to C<LOG_AUTH>
1413
1414=item *
1415
1416C<LOG_SYSLOG> - messages generated internally by B<syslogd>
1417
1418=item *
1419
1420C<LOG_USER> (default) - generic user-level messages
1421
1422=item *
1423
1424C<LOG_UUCP> - UUCP subsystem
1425
1426=back
1427
1428
1429=head2 Levels
1430
1431=over 4
1432
1433=item *
1434
1435C<LOG_EMERG> - system is unusable
1436
1437=item *
1438
1439C<LOG_ALERT> - action must be taken immediately
1440
1441=item *
1442
1443C<LOG_CRIT> - critical conditions
1444
1445=item *
1446
1447C<LOG_ERR> - error conditions
1448
1449=item *
1450
1451C<LOG_WARNING> - warning conditions
1452
1453=item *
1454
1455C<LOG_NOTICE> - normal, but significant, condition
1456
1457=item *
1458
1459C<LOG_INFO> - informational message
1460
1461=item *
1462
1463C<LOG_DEBUG> - debug-level message
1464
1465=back
1466
1467
1468=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
1469
1470=over
1471
1472=item C<Invalid argument passed to setlogsock>
1473
1474B<(F)> You gave C<setlogsock()> an invalid value for C<$sock_type>.
1475
1476=item C<eventlog passed to setlogsock, but no Win32 API available>
1477
1478B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use the Win32 event logger but the
1479operating system running the program isn't Win32 or does not provides Win32
1480compatible facilities.
1481
1482=item C<no connection to syslog available>
1483
1484B<(F)> C<syslog()> failed to connect to the specified socket.
1485
1486=item C<stream passed to setlogsock, but %s is not writable>
1487
1488B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a stream socket, but the given
1489path is not writable.
1490
1491=item C<stream passed to setlogsock, but could not find any device>
1492
1493B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a stream socket, but didn't
1494provide a path, and C<Sys::Syslog> was unable to find an appropriate one.
1495
1496=item C<tcp passed to setlogsock, but tcp service unavailable>
1497
1498B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a TCP socket, but the service
1499is not available on the system.
1500
1501=item C<syslog: expecting argument %s>
1502
1503B<(F)> You forgot to give C<syslog()> the indicated argument.
1504
1505=item C<syslog: invalid level/facility: %s>
1506
1507B<(F)> You specified an invalid level or facility.
1508
1509=item C<syslog: too many levels given: %s>
1510
1511B<(F)> You specified too many levels.
1512
1513=item C<syslog: too many facilities given: %s>
1514
1515B<(F)> You specified too many facilities.
1516
1517=item C<syslog: level must be given>
1518
1519B<(F)> You forgot to specify a level.
1520
1521=item C<udp passed to setlogsock, but udp service unavailable>
1522
1523B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a UDP socket, but the service
1524is not available on the system.
1525
1526=item C<unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available>
1527
1528B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a UNIX socket, but C<Sys::Syslog>
1529was unable to find an appropriate an appropriate device.
1530
1531=back
1532
1533
1534=head1 HISTORY
1535
1536C<Sys::Syslog> is a core module, part of the standard Perl distribution
1537since 1990.  At this time, modules as we know them didn't exist, the
1538Perl library was a collection of F<.pl> files, and the one for sending
1539syslog messages with was simply F<lib/syslog.pl>, included with Perl 3.0.
1540It was converted as a module with Perl 5.0, but had a version number
1541only starting with Perl 5.6.  Here is a small table with the matching
1542Perl and C<Sys::Syslog> versions.
1543
1544    Sys::Syslog     Perl
1545    -----------     ----
1546       undef        5.0.0 ~ 5.5.4
1547       0.01         5.6.*
1548       0.03         5.8.0
1549       0.04         5.8.1, 5.8.2, 5.8.3
1550       0.05         5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6
1551       0.06         5.8.7
1552       0.13         5.8.8
1553       0.22         5.10.0
1554       0.27         5.8.9, 5.10.1 ~ 5.14.2
1555       0.29         5.16.0, 5.16.1
1556
1557
1558=head1 SEE ALSO
1559
1560=head2 Manual Pages
1561
1562L<syslog(3)>
1563
1564SUSv3 issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 edition,
1565L<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/syslog.h.html>
1566
1567GNU C Library documentation on syslog,
1568L<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Syslog.html>
1569
1570Solaris 10 documentation on syslog,
1571L<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5168/syslog-3c?a=view>
1572
1573Mac OS X documentation on syslog,
1574L<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/syslog.3.html>
1575
1576IRIX 6.5 documentation on syslog,
1577L<http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=3c+syslog>
1578
1579AIX 5L 5.3 documentation on syslog,
1580L<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/syslog.htm>
1581
1582HP-UX 11i documentation on syslog,
1583L<http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/syslog.3C.html>
1584
1585Tru64 5.1 documentation on syslog,
1586L<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN3/0193____.HTM>
1587
1588Stratus VOS 15.1,
1589L<http://stratadoc.stratus.com/vos/15.1.1/r502-01/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?context=r502-01&file=ch5r502-01bi.html>
1590
1591=head2 RFCs
1592
1593I<RFC 3164 - The BSD syslog Protocol>, L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html>
1594-- Please note that this is an informational RFC, and therefore does not
1595specify a standard of any kind.
1596
1597I<RFC 3195 - Reliable Delivery for syslog>, L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3195.html>
1598
1599=head2 Articles
1600
1601I<Syslogging with Perl>, L<http://lexington.pm.org/meetings/022001.html>
1602
1603=head2 Event Log
1604
1605Windows Event Log,
1606L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wes/wes/windows_event_log.asp>
1607
1608
1609=head1 AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1610
1611Tom Christiansen E<lt>F<tchrist (at) perl.com>E<gt> and Larry Wall
1612E<lt>F<larry (at) wall.org>E<gt>.
1613
1614UNIX domain sockets added by Sean Robinson
1615E<lt>F<robinson_s (at) sc.maricopa.edu>E<gt> with support from Tim Bunce
1616E<lt>F<Tim.Bunce (at) ig.co.uk>E<gt> and the C<perl5-porters> mailing list.
1617
1618Dependency on F<syslog.ph> replaced with XS code by Tom Hughes
1619E<lt>F<tom (at) compton.nu>E<gt>.
1620
1621Code for C<constant()>s regenerated by Nicholas Clark E<lt>F<nick (at) ccl4.org>E<gt>.
1622
1623Failover to different communication modes by Nick Williams
1624E<lt>F<Nick.Williams (at) morganstanley.com>E<gt>.
1625
1626Extracted from core distribution for publishing on the CPAN by
1627SE<eacute>bastien Aperghis-Tramoni E<lt>sebastien (at) aperghis.netE<gt>.
1628
1629XS code for using native C functions borrowed from C<L<Unix::Syslog>>,
1630written by Marcus Harnisch E<lt>F<marcus.harnisch (at) gmx.net>E<gt>.
1631
1632Yves Orton suggested and helped for making C<Sys::Syslog> use the native
1633event logger under Win32 systems.
1634
1635Jerry D. Hedden and Reini Urban provided greatly appreciated help to
1636debug and polish C<Sys::Syslog> under Cygwin.
1637
1638
1639=head1 BUGS
1640
1641Please report any bugs or feature requests to
1642C<bug-sys-syslog (at) rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at
1643L<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sys-Syslog>.
1644I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
1645your bug as I make changes.
1646
1647
1648=head1 SUPPORT
1649
1650You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
1651
1652    perldoc Sys::Syslog
1653
1654You can also look for information at:
1655
1656=over 4
1657
1658=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
1659
1660L<http://annocpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog>
1661
1662=item * CPAN Ratings
1663
1664L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Sys-Syslog>
1665
1666=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker
1667
1668L<http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Sys-Syslog>
1669
1670=item * Search CPAN
1671
1672L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog/>
1673
1674=item * MetaCPAN
1675
1676L<https://metacpan.org/module/Sys::Syslog>
1677
1678=item * Perl Documentation
1679
1680L<http://perldoc.perl.org/Sys/Syslog.html>
1681
1682=back
1683
1684
1685=head1 COPYRIGHT
1686
1687Copyright (C) 1990-2012 by Larry Wall and others.
1688
1689
1690=head1 LICENSE
1691
1692This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
1693under the same terms as Perl itself.
1694
1695=cut
1696
1697=begin comment
1698
1699Notes for the future maintainer (even if it's still me..)
1700- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1701
1702Using Google Code Search, I search who on Earth was relying on $host being
1703public. It found 5 hits:
1704
1705* First was inside Indigo Star Perl2exe documentation. Just an old version
1706of Sys::Syslog.
1707
1708
1709* One real hit was inside DalWeathDB, a weather related program. It simply
1710does a
1711
1712    $Sys::Syslog::host = '127.0.0.1';
1713
1714- L<http://www.gallistel.net/nparker/weather/code/>
1715
1716
1717* Two hits were in TPC, a fax server thingy. It does a
1718
1719    $Sys::Syslog::host = $TPC::LOGHOST;
1720
1721but also has this strange piece of code:
1722
1723    # work around perl5.003 bug
1724    sub Sys::Syslog::hostname {}
1725
1726I don't know what bug the author referred to.
1727
1728- L<http://www.tpc.int/>
1729- L<ftp://ftp-usa.tpc.int/pub/tpc/server/UNIX/>
1730
1731
1732* Last hit was in Filefix, which seems to be a FIDOnet mail program (!).
1733This one does not use $host, but has the following piece of code:
1734
1735    sub Sys::Syslog::hostname
1736    {
1737        use Sys::Hostname;
1738        return hostname;
1739    }
1740
1741I guess this was a more elaborate form of the previous bit, maybe because
1742of a bug in Sys::Syslog back then?
1743
1744- L<ftp://ftp.kiae.su/pub/unix/fido/>
1745
1746
1747Links
1748-----
1749Linux Fast-STREAMS
1750- L<http://www.openss7.org/streams.html>
1751
1752II12021: SYSLOGD HOWTO TCPIPINFO (z/OS, OS/390, MVS)
1753- L<http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II12021>
1754
1755Getting the most out of the Event Viewer
1756- L<http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/evtvwr.asp?print=true>
1757
1758Log events to the Windows NT Event Log with JNI
1759- L<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2001/jw-0928-ntmessages.html>
1760
1761=end comment
1762
1763