1package Sys::Syslog; 2use strict; 3use warnings; 4use warnings::register; 5use Carp; 6use Exporter qw< import >; 7use File::Basename; 8use POSIX qw< strftime setlocale LC_TIME >; 9use Socket qw< :all >; 10require 5.005; 11 12 13{ no strict 'vars'; 14 $VERSION = '0.33_01'; 15 16 %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 17 standard => [qw(openlog syslog closelog setlogmask)], 18 extended => [qw(setlogsock)], 19 macros => [ 20 # levels 21 qw( 22 LOG_ALERT LOG_CRIT LOG_DEBUG LOG_EMERG LOG_ERR 23 LOG_INFO LOG_NOTICE LOG_WARNING 24 ), 25 26 # standard facilities 27 qw( 28 LOG_AUTH LOG_AUTHPRIV LOG_CRON LOG_DAEMON LOG_FTP LOG_KERN 29 LOG_LOCAL0 LOG_LOCAL1 LOG_LOCAL2 LOG_LOCAL3 LOG_LOCAL4 30 LOG_LOCAL5 LOG_LOCAL6 LOG_LOCAL7 LOG_LPR LOG_MAIL LOG_NEWS 31 LOG_SYSLOG LOG_USER LOG_UUCP 32 ), 33 # Mac OS X specific facilities 34 qw( LOG_INSTALL LOG_LAUNCHD LOG_NETINFO LOG_RAS LOG_REMOTEAUTH ), 35 # modern BSD specific facilities 36 qw( LOG_CONSOLE LOG_NTP LOG_SECURITY ), 37 # IRIX specific facilities 38 qw( LOG_AUDIT LOG_LFMT ), 39 40 # options 41 qw( 42 LOG_CONS LOG_PID LOG_NDELAY LOG_NOWAIT LOG_ODELAY LOG_PERROR 43 ), 44 45 # others macros 46 qw( 47 LOG_FACMASK LOG_NFACILITIES LOG_PRIMASK 48 LOG_MASK LOG_UPTO 49 ), 50 ], 51 ); 52 53 @EXPORT = ( 54 @{$EXPORT_TAGS{standard}}, 55 ); 56 57 @EXPORT_OK = ( 58 @{$EXPORT_TAGS{extended}}, 59 @{$EXPORT_TAGS{macros}}, 60 ); 61 62 eval { 63 require XSLoader; 64 XSLoader::load('Sys::Syslog', $VERSION); 65 1 66 } or do { 67 require DynaLoader; 68 push @ISA, 'DynaLoader'; 69 bootstrap Sys::Syslog $VERSION; 70 }; 71} 72 73 74# 75# Public variables 76# 77use vars qw($host); # host to send syslog messages to (see notes at end) 78 79# 80# Prototypes 81# 82sub silent_eval (&); 83 84# 85# Global variables 86# 87use vars qw($facility); 88my $connected = 0; # flag to indicate if we're connected or not 89my $syslog_send; # coderef of the function used to send messages 90my $syslog_path = undef; # syslog path for "stream" and "unix" mechanisms 91my $syslog_xobj = undef; # if defined, holds the external object used to send messages 92my $transmit_ok = 0; # flag to indicate if the last message was transmitted 93my $sock_port = undef; # socket port 94my $sock_timeout = 0; # socket timeout, see below 95my $current_proto = undef; # current mechanism used to transmit messages 96my $ident = ''; # identifiant prepended to each message 97$facility = ''; # current facility 98my $maskpri = LOG_UPTO(&LOG_DEBUG); # current log mask 99 100my %options = ( 101 ndelay => 0, 102 noeol => 0, 103 nofatal => 0, 104 nonul => 0, 105 nowait => 0, 106 perror => 0, 107 pid => 0, 108); 109 110# Default is now to first use the native mechanism, so Perl programs 111# behave like other normal Unix programs, then try other mechanisms. 112my @connectMethods = qw(native tcp udp unix pipe stream console); 113if ($^O eq "freebsd" or $^O eq "linux") { 114 @connectMethods = grep { $_ ne 'udp' } @connectMethods; 115} 116 117# And on Win32 systems, we try to use the native mechanism for this 118# platform, the events logger, available through Win32::EventLog. 119EVENTLOG: { 120 my $is_Win32 = $^O =~ /Win32/i; 121 122 if (can_load("Sys::Syslog::Win32", $is_Win32)) { 123 unshift @connectMethods, 'eventlog'; 124 } 125} 126 127my @defaultMethods = @connectMethods; 128my @fallbackMethods = (); 129 130# The timeout in connection_ok() was pushed up to 0.25 sec in 131# Sys::Syslog v0.19 in order to address a heisenbug on MacOSX: 132# http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20061211/005961.html 133# 134# However, this also had the effect of slowing this test for 135# all other operating systems, which apparently impacted some 136# users (cf. CPAN-RT #34753). So, in order to make everybody 137# happy, the timeout is now zero by default on all systems 138# except on OSX where it is set to 250 msec, and can be set 139# with the infamous setlogsock() function. 140# 141# Update 2011-08: this issue is also been seen on multiprocessor 142# Debian GNU/kFreeBSD systems. See http://bugs.debian.org/627821 143# and https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69997 144# Also, lowering the delay to 1 ms, which should be enough. 145 146$sock_timeout = 0.001 if $^O =~ /darwin|gnukfreebsd/; 147 148 149# Perl 5.6.0's warnings.pm doesn't have warnings::warnif() 150if (not defined &warnings::warnif) { 151 *warnings::warnif = sub { 152 goto &warnings::warn if warnings::enabled(__PACKAGE__) 153 } 154} 155 156# coderef for a nicer handling of errors 157my $err_sub = $options{nofatal} ? \&warnings::warnif : \&croak; 158 159 160sub AUTOLOAD { 161 # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant() 162 # XS function. 163 no strict 'vars'; 164 my $constname; 165 ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; 166 croak "Sys::Syslog::constant() not defined" if $constname eq 'constant'; 167 my ($error, $val) = constant($constname); 168 croak $error if $error; 169 no strict 'refs'; 170 *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val }; 171 goto &$AUTOLOAD; 172} 173 174 175sub openlog { 176 ($ident, my $logopt, $facility) = @_; 177 178 # default values 179 $ident ||= basename($0) || getlogin() || getpwuid($<) || 'syslog'; 180 $logopt ||= ''; 181 $facility ||= LOG_USER(); 182 183 for my $opt (split /\b/, $logopt) { 184 $options{$opt} = 1 if exists $options{$opt} 185 } 186 187 $err_sub = delete $options{nofatal} ? \&warnings::warnif : \&croak; 188 return 1 unless $options{ndelay}; 189 connect_log(); 190} 191 192sub closelog { 193 disconnect_log() if $connected; 194 $options{$_} = 0 for keys %options; 195 $facility = $ident = ""; 196 $connected = 0; 197 return 1 198} 199 200sub setlogmask { 201 my $oldmask = $maskpri; 202 $maskpri = shift unless $_[0] == 0; 203 $oldmask; 204} 205 206 207my %mechanism = ( 208 console => { 209 check => sub { 1 }, 210 }, 211 eventlog => { 212 check => sub { return can_load("Win32::EventLog") }, 213 err_msg => "no Win32 API available", 214 }, 215 inet => { 216 check => sub { 1 }, 217 }, 218 native => { 219 check => sub { 1 }, 220 }, 221 pipe => { 222 check => sub { 223 ($syslog_path) = grep { defined && length && -p && -w _ } 224 $syslog_path, &_PATH_LOG, "/dev/log"; 225 return $syslog_path ? 1 : 0 226 }, 227 err_msg => "path not available", 228 }, 229 stream => { 230 check => sub { 231 if (not defined $syslog_path) { 232 my @try = qw(/dev/log /dev/conslog); 233 unshift @try, &_PATH_LOG if length &_PATH_LOG; 234 ($syslog_path) = grep { -w } @try; 235 } 236 return defined $syslog_path && -w $syslog_path 237 }, 238 err_msg => "could not find any writable device", 239 }, 240 tcp => { 241 check => sub { 242 return 1 if defined $sock_port; 243 244 if (getservbyname('syslog', 'tcp') || getservbyname('syslogng', 'tcp')) { 245 $host = $syslog_path; 246 return 1 247 } 248 else { 249 return 250 } 251 }, 252 err_msg => "TCP service unavailable", 253 }, 254 udp => { 255 check => sub { 256 return 1 if defined $sock_port; 257 258 if (getservbyname('syslog', 'udp')) { 259 $host = $syslog_path; 260 return 1 261 } 262 else { 263 return 264 } 265 }, 266 err_msg => "UDP service unavailable", 267 }, 268 unix => { 269 check => sub { 270 my @try = ($syslog_path, &_PATH_LOG); 271 ($syslog_path) = grep { defined && length && -w } @try; 272 return defined $syslog_path && -w $syslog_path 273 }, 274 err_msg => "path not available", 275 }, 276); 277 278sub setlogsock { 279 my %opt; 280 281 # handle arguments 282 # - old API: setlogsock($sock_type, $sock_path, $sock_timeout) 283 # - new API: setlogsock(\%options) 284 croak "setlogsock(): Invalid number of arguments" 285 unless @_ >= 1 and @_ <= 3; 286 287 if (my $ref = ref $_[0]) { 288 if ($ref eq "HASH") { 289 %opt = %{ $_[0] }; 290 croak "setlogsock(): No argument given" unless keys %opt; 291 } 292 elsif ($ref eq "ARRAY") { 293 @opt{qw< type path timeout >} = @_; 294 } 295 else { 296 croak "setlogsock(): Unexpected \L$ref\E reference" 297 } 298 } 299 else { 300 @opt{qw< type path timeout >} = @_; 301 } 302 303 # check socket type, remove invalid ones 304 my $diag_invalid_type = "setlogsock(): Invalid type%s; must be one of " 305 . join ", ", map { "'$_'" } sort keys %mechanism; 306 croak sprintf $diag_invalid_type, "" unless defined $opt{type}; 307 my @sock_types = ref $opt{type} eq "ARRAY" ? @{$opt{type}} : ($opt{type}); 308 my @tmp; 309 310 for my $sock_type (@sock_types) { 311 carp sprintf $diag_invalid_type, " '$sock_type'" and next 312 unless exists $mechanism{$sock_type}; 313 push @tmp, "tcp", "udp" and next if $sock_type eq "inet"; 314 push @tmp, $sock_type; 315 } 316 317 @sock_types = @tmp; 318 319 # set global options 320 $syslog_path = $opt{path} if defined $opt{path}; 321 $host = $opt{host} if defined $opt{host}; 322 $sock_timeout = $opt{timeout} if defined $opt{timeout}; 323 $sock_port = $opt{port} if defined $opt{port}; 324 325 disconnect_log() if $connected; 326 $transmit_ok = 0; 327 @fallbackMethods = (); 328 @connectMethods = (); 329 my $found = 0; 330 331 # check each given mechanism and test if it can be used on the current system 332 for my $sock_type (@sock_types) { 333 if ( $mechanism{$sock_type}{check}->() ) { 334 push @connectMethods, $sock_type; 335 $found = 1; 336 } 337 else { 338 warnings::warnif("setlogsock(): type='$sock_type': " 339 . $mechanism{$sock_type}{err_msg}); 340 } 341 } 342 343 # if no mechanism worked from the given ones, use the default ones 344 @connectMethods = @defaultMethods unless @connectMethods; 345 346 return $found; 347} 348 349sub syslog { 350 my ($priority, $mask, @args) = @_; 351 my ($message, $buf); 352 my (@words, $num, $numpri, $numfac, $sum); 353 my $failed = undef; 354 my $fail_time = undef; 355 my $error = $!; 356 357 # if $ident is undefined, it means openlog() wasn't previously called 358 # so do it now in order to have sensible defaults 359 openlog() unless $ident; 360 361 local $facility = $facility; # may need to change temporarily. 362 363 croak "syslog: expecting argument \$priority" unless defined $priority; 364 croak "syslog: expecting argument \$format" unless defined $mask; 365 366 if ($priority =~ /^\d+$/) { 367 $numpri = LOG_PRI($priority); 368 $numfac = LOG_FAC($priority) << 3; 369 } 370 elsif ($priority =~ /^\w+/) { 371 # Allow "level" or "level|facility". 372 @words = split /\W+/, $priority, 2; 373 374 undef $numpri; 375 undef $numfac; 376 377 for my $word (@words) { 378 next if length $word == 0; 379 380 # Translate word to number. 381 $num = xlate($word); 382 383 if ($num < 0) { 384 croak "syslog: invalid level/facility: $word" 385 } 386 elsif ($num <= LOG_PRIMASK() and $word ne "kern") { 387 croak "syslog: too many levels given: $word" 388 if defined $numpri; 389 $numpri = $num; 390 } 391 else { 392 croak "syslog: too many facilities given: $word" 393 if defined $numfac; 394 $facility = $word if $word =~ /^[A-Za-z]/; 395 $numfac = $num; 396 } 397 } 398 } 399 else { 400 croak "syslog: invalid level/facility: $priority" 401 } 402 403 croak "syslog: level must be given" unless defined $numpri; 404 405 # don't log if priority is below mask level 406 return 0 unless LOG_MASK($numpri) & $maskpri; 407 408 if (not defined $numfac) { # Facility not specified in this call. 409 $facility = 'user' unless $facility; 410 $numfac = xlate($facility); 411 } 412 413 connect_log() unless $connected; 414 415 if ($mask =~ /%m/) { 416 # escape percent signs for sprintf() 417 $error =~ s/%/%%/g if @args; 418 # replace %m with $error, if preceded by an even number of percent signs 419 $mask =~ s/(?<!%)((?:%%)*)%m/$1$error/g; 420 } 421 422 $mask .= "\n" unless $mask =~ /\n$/; 423 $message = @args ? sprintf($mask, @args) : $mask; 424 425 if ($current_proto eq 'native') { 426 $buf = $message; 427 } 428 elsif ($current_proto eq 'eventlog') { 429 $buf = $message; 430 } 431 else { 432 my $whoami = $ident; 433 $whoami .= "[$$]" if $options{pid}; 434 435 $sum = $numpri + $numfac; 436 my $oldlocale = setlocale(LC_TIME); 437 setlocale(LC_TIME, 'C'); 438 my $timestamp = strftime "%b %d %H:%M:%S", localtime; 439 setlocale(LC_TIME, $oldlocale); 440 441 # construct the stream that will be transmitted 442 $buf = "<$sum>$timestamp $whoami: $message"; 443 444 # add (or not) a newline 445 $buf .= "\n" if !$options{noeol} and rindex($buf, "\n") == -1; 446 447 # add (or not) a NUL character 448 $buf .= "\0" if !$options{nonul}; 449 } 450 451 # handle PERROR option 452 # "native" mechanism already handles it by itself 453 if ($options{perror} and $current_proto ne 'native') { 454 my $whoami = $ident; 455 $whoami .= "[$$]" if $options{pid}; 456 print STDERR "$whoami: $message\n"; 457 } 458 459 # it's possible that we'll get an error from sending 460 # (e.g. if method is UDP and there is no UDP listener, 461 # then we'll get ECONNREFUSED on the send). So what we 462 # want to do at this point is to fallback onto a different 463 # connection method. 464 while (scalar @fallbackMethods || $syslog_send) { 465 if ($failed && (time - $fail_time) > 60) { 466 # it's been a while... maybe things have been fixed 467 @fallbackMethods = (); 468 disconnect_log(); 469 $transmit_ok = 0; # make it look like a fresh attempt 470 connect_log(); 471 } 472 473 if ($connected && !connection_ok()) { 474 # Something was OK, but has now broken. Remember coz we'll 475 # want to go back to what used to be OK. 476 $failed = $current_proto unless $failed; 477 $fail_time = time; 478 disconnect_log(); 479 } 480 481 connect_log() unless $connected; 482 $failed = undef if ($current_proto && $failed && $current_proto eq $failed); 483 484 if ($syslog_send) { 485 if ($syslog_send->($buf, $numpri, $numfac)) { 486 $transmit_ok++; 487 return 1; 488 } 489 # typically doesn't happen, since errors are rare from write(). 490 disconnect_log(); 491 } 492 } 493 # could not send, could not fallback onto a working 494 # connection method. Lose. 495 return 0; 496} 497 498sub _syslog_send_console { 499 my ($buf) = @_; 500 501 # The console print is a method which could block 502 # so we do it in a child process and always return success 503 # to the caller. 504 if (my $pid = fork) { 505 506 if ($options{nowait}) { 507 return 1; 508 } else { 509 if (waitpid($pid, 0) >= 0) { 510 return ($? >> 8); 511 } else { 512 # it's possible that the caller has other 513 # plans for SIGCHLD, so let's not interfere 514 return 1; 515 } 516 } 517 } else { 518 if (open(CONS, ">/dev/console")) { 519 my $ret = print CONS $buf . "\r"; # XXX: should this be \x0A ? 520 POSIX::_exit($ret) if defined $pid; 521 close CONS; 522 } 523 524 POSIX::_exit(0) if defined $pid; 525 } 526} 527 528sub _syslog_send_stream { 529 my ($buf) = @_; 530 # XXX: this only works if the OS stream implementation makes a write 531 # look like a putmsg() with simple header. For instance it works on 532 # Solaris 8 but not Solaris 7. 533 # To be correct, it should use a STREAMS API, but perl doesn't have one. 534 return syswrite(SYSLOG, $buf, length($buf)); 535} 536 537sub _syslog_send_pipe { 538 my ($buf) = @_; 539 return print SYSLOG $buf; 540} 541 542sub _syslog_send_socket { 543 my ($buf) = @_; 544 return syswrite(SYSLOG, $buf, length($buf)); 545 #return send(SYSLOG, $buf, 0); 546} 547 548sub _syslog_send_native { 549 my ($buf, $numpri, $numfac) = @_; 550 syslog_xs($numpri|$numfac, $buf); 551 return 1; 552} 553 554 555# xlate() 556# ----- 557# private function to translate names to numeric values 558# 559sub xlate { 560 my ($name) = @_; 561 562 return $name+0 if $name =~ /^\s*\d+\s*$/; 563 $name = uc $name; 564 $name = "LOG_$name" unless $name =~ /^LOG_/; 565 566 # ExtUtils::Constant 0.20 introduced a new way to implement 567 # constants, called ProxySubs. When it was used to generate 568 # the C code, the constant() function no longer returns the 569 # correct value. Therefore, we first try a direct call to 570 # constant(), and if the value is an error we try to call the 571 # constant by its full name. 572 my $value = constant($name); 573 574 if (index($value, "not a valid") >= 0) { 575 $name = "Sys::Syslog::$name"; 576 $value = eval { no strict "refs"; &$name }; 577 $value = $@ unless defined $value; 578 } 579 580 $value = -1 if index($value, "not a valid") >= 0; 581 582 return defined $value ? $value : -1; 583} 584 585 586# connect_log() 587# ----------- 588# This function acts as a kind of front-end: it tries to connect to 589# a syslog service using the selected methods, trying each one in the 590# selected order. 591# 592sub connect_log { 593 @fallbackMethods = @connectMethods unless scalar @fallbackMethods; 594 595 if ($transmit_ok && $current_proto) { 596 # Retry what we were on, because it has worked in the past. 597 unshift(@fallbackMethods, $current_proto); 598 } 599 600 $connected = 0; 601 my @errs = (); 602 my $proto = undef; 603 604 while ($proto = shift @fallbackMethods) { 605 no strict 'refs'; 606 my $fn = "connect_$proto"; 607 $connected = &$fn(\@errs) if defined &$fn; 608 last if $connected; 609 } 610 611 $transmit_ok = 0; 612 if ($connected) { 613 $current_proto = $proto; 614 my ($old) = select(SYSLOG); $| = 1; select($old); 615 } else { 616 @fallbackMethods = (); 617 $err_sub->(join "\n\t- ", "no connection to syslog available", @errs); 618 return undef; 619 } 620} 621 622sub connect_tcp { 623 my ($errs) = @_; 624 625 my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); 626 if (!defined $proto) { 627 push @$errs, "getprotobyname failed for tcp"; 628 return 0; 629 } 630 631 my $port = $sock_port || getservbyname('syslog', 'tcp'); 632 $port = getservbyname('syslogng', 'tcp') unless defined $port; 633 if (!defined $port) { 634 push @$errs, "getservbyname failed for syslog/tcp and syslogng/tcp"; 635 return 0; 636 } 637 638 my $addr; 639 if (defined $host) { 640 $addr = inet_aton($host); 641 if (!$addr) { 642 push @$errs, "can't lookup $host"; 643 return 0; 644 } 645 } else { 646 $addr = INADDR_LOOPBACK; 647 } 648 $addr = sockaddr_in($port, $addr); 649 650 if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto)) { 651 push @$errs, "tcp socket: $!"; 652 return 0; 653 } 654 655 setsockopt(SYSLOG, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, 1); 656 if (silent_eval { IPPROTO_TCP() }) { 657 # These constants don't exist in 5.005. They were added in 1999 658 setsockopt(SYSLOG, IPPROTO_TCP(), TCP_NODELAY(), 1); 659 } 660 if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) { 661 push @$errs, "tcp connect: $!"; 662 return 0; 663 } 664 665 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket; 666 667 return 1; 668} 669 670sub connect_udp { 671 my ($errs) = @_; 672 673 my $proto = getprotobyname('udp'); 674 if (!defined $proto) { 675 push @$errs, "getprotobyname failed for udp"; 676 return 0; 677 } 678 679 my $port = $sock_port || getservbyname('syslog', 'udp'); 680 if (!defined $port) { 681 push @$errs, "getservbyname failed for syslog/udp"; 682 return 0; 683 } 684 685 my $addr; 686 if (defined $host) { 687 $addr = inet_aton($host); 688 if (!$addr) { 689 push @$errs, "can't lookup $host"; 690 return 0; 691 } 692 } else { 693 $addr = INADDR_LOOPBACK; 694 } 695 $addr = sockaddr_in($port, $addr); 696 697 if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, $proto)) { 698 push @$errs, "udp socket: $!"; 699 return 0; 700 } 701 if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) { 702 push @$errs, "udp connect: $!"; 703 return 0; 704 } 705 706 # We want to check that the UDP connect worked. However the only 707 # way to do that is to send a message and see if an ICMP is returned 708 _syslog_send_socket(""); 709 if (!connection_ok()) { 710 push @$errs, "udp connect: nobody listening"; 711 return 0; 712 } 713 714 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket; 715 716 return 1; 717} 718 719sub connect_stream { 720 my ($errs) = @_; 721 # might want syslog_path to be variable based on syslog.h (if only 722 # it were in there!) 723 $syslog_path = '/dev/conslog' unless defined $syslog_path; 724 725 if (!-w $syslog_path) { 726 push @$errs, "stream $syslog_path is not writable"; 727 return 0; 728 } 729 730 require Fcntl; 731 732 if (!sysopen(SYSLOG, $syslog_path, Fcntl::O_WRONLY(), 0400)) { 733 push @$errs, "stream can't open $syslog_path: $!"; 734 return 0; 735 } 736 737 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_stream; 738 739 return 1; 740} 741 742sub connect_pipe { 743 my ($errs) = @_; 744 745 $syslog_path ||= &_PATH_LOG || "/dev/log"; 746 747 if (not -w $syslog_path) { 748 push @$errs, "$syslog_path is not writable"; 749 return 0; 750 } 751 752 if (not open(SYSLOG, ">$syslog_path")) { 753 push @$errs, "can't write to $syslog_path: $!"; 754 return 0; 755 } 756 757 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_pipe; 758 759 return 1; 760} 761 762sub connect_unix { 763 my ($errs) = @_; 764 765 $syslog_path ||= _PATH_LOG() if length _PATH_LOG(); 766 767 if (not defined $syslog_path) { 768 push @$errs, "_PATH_LOG not available in syslog.h and no user-supplied socket path"; 769 return 0; 770 } 771 772 if (not (-S $syslog_path or -c _)) { 773 push @$errs, "$syslog_path is not a socket"; 774 return 0; 775 } 776 777 my $addr = sockaddr_un($syslog_path); 778 if (!$addr) { 779 push @$errs, "can't locate $syslog_path"; 780 return 0; 781 } 782 if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) { 783 push @$errs, "unix stream socket: $!"; 784 return 0; 785 } 786 787 if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) { 788 if (!socket(SYSLOG, AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) { 789 push @$errs, "unix dgram socket: $!"; 790 return 0; 791 } 792 if (!connect(SYSLOG, $addr)) { 793 push @$errs, "unix dgram connect: $!"; 794 return 0; 795 } 796 } 797 798 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_socket; 799 800 return 1; 801} 802 803sub connect_native { 804 my ($errs) = @_; 805 my $logopt = 0; 806 807 # reconstruct the numeric equivalent of the options 808 for my $opt (keys %options) { 809 $logopt += xlate($opt) if $options{$opt} 810 } 811 812 openlog_xs($ident, $logopt, xlate($facility)); 813 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_native; 814 815 return 1; 816} 817 818sub connect_eventlog { 819 my ($errs) = @_; 820 821 $syslog_xobj = Sys::Syslog::Win32::_install(); 822 $syslog_send = \&Sys::Syslog::Win32::_syslog_send; 823 824 return 1; 825} 826 827sub connect_console { 828 my ($errs) = @_; 829 if (!-w '/dev/console') { 830 push @$errs, "console is not writable"; 831 return 0; 832 } 833 $syslog_send = \&_syslog_send_console; 834 return 1; 835} 836 837# To test if the connection is still good, we need to check if any 838# errors are present on the connection. The errors will not be raised 839# by a write. Instead, sockets are made readable and the next read 840# would cause the error to be returned. Unfortunately the syslog 841# 'protocol' never provides anything for us to read. But with 842# judicious use of select(), we can see if it would be readable... 843sub connection_ok { 844 return 1 if defined $current_proto and ( 845 $current_proto eq 'native' or $current_proto eq 'console' 846 or $current_proto eq 'eventlog' 847 ); 848 849 my $rin = ''; 850 vec($rin, fileno(SYSLOG), 1) = 1; 851 my $ret = select $rin, undef, $rin, $sock_timeout; 852 return ($ret ? 0 : 1); 853} 854 855sub disconnect_log { 856 $connected = 0; 857 $syslog_send = undef; 858 859 if (defined $current_proto and $current_proto eq 'native') { 860 closelog_xs(); 861 unshift @fallbackMethods, $current_proto; 862 $current_proto = undef; 863 return 1; 864 } 865 elsif (defined $current_proto and $current_proto eq 'eventlog') { 866 $syslog_xobj->Close(); 867 unshift @fallbackMethods, $current_proto; 868 $current_proto = undef; 869 return 1; 870 } 871 872 return close SYSLOG; 873} 874 875 876# 877# Wrappers around eval() that makes sure that nobody, and I say NOBODY, 878# ever knows that I wanted to test if something was here or not. 879# It is needed because some applications are trying to be too smart, 880# do it wrong, and it ends up in EPIC FAIL. 881# Yes I'm speaking of YOU, SpamAssassin. 882# 883sub silent_eval (&) { 884 local($SIG{__DIE__}, $SIG{__WARN__}, $@); 885 return eval { $_[0]->() } 886} 887 888sub can_load { 889 my ($module, $verbose) = @_; 890 local($SIG{__DIE__}, $SIG{__WARN__}, $@); 891 local @INC = @INC; 892 pop @INC if $INC[-1] eq '.'; 893 my $loaded = eval "use $module; 1"; 894 warn $@ if not $loaded and $verbose; 895 return $loaded 896} 897 898 899"Eighth Rule: read the documentation." 900 901__END__ 902 903=head1 NAME 904 905Sys::Syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 906 907=head1 VERSION 908 909This is the documentation of version 0.33 910 911=head1 SYNOPSIS 912 913 use Sys::Syslog; # all except setlogsock() 914 use Sys::Syslog qw(:standard :macros); # standard functions & macros 915 916 openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility); # don't forget this 917 syslog($priority, $format, @args); 918 $oldmask = setlogmask($mask_priority); 919 closelog(); 920 921 922=head1 DESCRIPTION 923 924C<Sys::Syslog> is an interface to the UNIX C<syslog(3)> program. 925Call C<syslog()> with a string priority and a list of C<printf()> args 926just like C<syslog(3)>. 927 928 929=head1 EXPORTS 930 931C<Sys::Syslog> exports the following C<Exporter> tags: 932 933=over 4 934 935=item * 936 937C<:standard> exports the standard C<syslog(3)> functions: 938 939 openlog closelog setlogmask syslog 940 941=item * 942 943C<:extended> exports the Perl specific functions for C<syslog(3)>: 944 945 setlogsock 946 947=item * 948 949C<:macros> exports the symbols corresponding to most of your C<syslog(3)> 950macros and the C<LOG_UPTO()> and C<LOG_MASK()> functions. 951See L<"CONSTANTS"> for the supported constants and their meaning. 952 953=back 954 955By default, C<Sys::Syslog> exports the symbols from the C<:standard> tag. 956 957 958=head1 FUNCTIONS 959 960=over 4 961 962=item B<openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility)> 963 964Opens the syslog. 965C<$ident> is prepended to every message. C<$logopt> contains zero or 966more of the options detailed below. C<$facility> specifies the part 967of the system to report about, for example C<LOG_USER> or C<LOG_LOCAL0>: 968see L<"Facilities"> for a list of well-known facilities, and your 969C<syslog(3)> documentation for the facilities available in your system. 970Check L<"SEE ALSO"> for useful links. Facility can be given as a string 971or a numeric macro. 972 973This function will croak if it can't connect to the syslog daemon. 974 975Note that C<openlog()> now takes three arguments, just like C<openlog(3)>. 976 977B<You should use C<openlog()> before calling C<syslog()>.> 978 979B<Options> 980 981=over 4 982 983=item * 984 985C<cons> - This option is ignored, since the failover mechanism will drop 986down to the console automatically if all other media fail. 987 988=item * 989 990C<ndelay> - Open the connection immediately (normally, the connection is 991opened when the first message is logged). 992 993=item * 994 995C<noeol> - When set to true, no end of line character (C<\n>) will be 996appended to the message. This can be useful for some buggy syslog daemons. 997 998=item * 999 1000C<nofatal> - When set to true, C<openlog()> and C<syslog()> will only 1001emit warnings instead of dying if the connection to the syslog can't 1002be established. 1003 1004=item * 1005 1006C<nonul> - When set to true, no C<NUL> character (C<\0>) will be 1007appended to the message. This can be useful for some buggy syslog daemons. 1008 1009=item * 1010 1011C<nowait> - Don't wait for child processes that may have been created 1012while logging the message. (The GNU C library does not create a child 1013process, so this option has no effect on Linux.) 1014 1015=item * 1016 1017C<perror> - Write the message to standard error output as well to the 1018system log (added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.22). 1019 1020=item * 1021 1022C<pid> - Include PID with each message. 1023 1024=back 1025 1026B<Examples> 1027 1028Open the syslog with options C<ndelay> and C<pid>, and with facility C<LOCAL0>: 1029 1030 openlog($name, "ndelay,pid", "local0"); 1031 1032Same thing, but this time using the macro corresponding to C<LOCAL0>: 1033 1034 openlog($name, "ndelay,pid", LOG_LOCAL0); 1035 1036 1037=item B<syslog($priority, $message)> 1038 1039=item B<syslog($priority, $format, @args)> 1040 1041If C<$priority> permits, logs C<$message> or C<sprintf($format, @args)> 1042with the addition that C<%m> in $message or C<$format> is replaced with 1043C<"$!"> (the latest error message). 1044 1045C<$priority> can specify a level, or a level and a facility. Levels and 1046facilities can be given as strings or as macros. When using the C<eventlog> 1047mechanism, priorities C<DEBUG> and C<INFO> are mapped to event type 1048C<informational>, C<NOTICE> and C<WARNING> to C<warning> and C<ERR> to 1049C<EMERG> to C<error>. 1050 1051If you didn't use C<openlog()> before using C<syslog()>, C<syslog()> will 1052try to guess the C<$ident> by extracting the shortest prefix of 1053C<$format> that ends in a C<":">. 1054 1055B<Examples> 1056 1057 # informational level 1058 syslog("info", $message); 1059 syslog(LOG_INFO, $message); 1060 1061 # information level, Local0 facility 1062 syslog("info|local0", $message); 1063 syslog(LOG_INFO|LOG_LOCAL0, $message); 1064 1065=over 4 1066 1067=item B<Note> 1068 1069C<Sys::Syslog> version v0.07 and older passed the C<$message> as the 1070formatting string to C<sprintf()> even when no formatting arguments 1071were provided. If the code calling C<syslog()> might execute with 1072older versions of this module, make sure to call the function as 1073C<syslog($priority, "%s", $message)> instead of C<syslog($priority, 1074$message)>. This protects against hostile formatting sequences that 1075might show up if $message contains tainted data. 1076 1077=back 1078 1079 1080=item B<setlogmask($mask_priority)> 1081 1082Sets the log mask for the current process to C<$mask_priority> and 1083returns the old mask. If the mask argument is 0, the current log mask 1084is not modified. See L<"Levels"> for the list of available levels. 1085You can use the C<LOG_UPTO()> function to allow all levels up to a 1086given priority (but it only accept the numeric macros as arguments). 1087 1088B<Examples> 1089 1090Only log errors: 1091 1092 setlogmask( LOG_MASK(LOG_ERR) ); 1093 1094Log everything except informational messages: 1095 1096 setlogmask( ~(LOG_MASK(LOG_INFO)) ); 1097 1098Log critical messages, errors and warnings: 1099 1100 setlogmask( LOG_MASK(LOG_CRIT) 1101 | LOG_MASK(LOG_ERR) 1102 | LOG_MASK(LOG_WARNING) ); 1103 1104Log all messages up to debug: 1105 1106 setlogmask( LOG_UPTO(LOG_DEBUG) ); 1107 1108 1109=item B<setlogsock()> 1110 1111Sets the socket type and options to be used for the next call to C<openlog()> 1112or C<syslog()>. Returns true on success, C<undef> on failure. 1113 1114Being Perl-specific, this function has evolved along time. It can currently 1115be called as follow: 1116 1117=over 1118 1119=item * 1120 1121C<setlogsock($sock_type)> 1122 1123=item * 1124 1125C<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location)> (added in Perl 5.004_02) 1126 1127=item * 1128 1129C<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location, $sock_timeout)> (added in 1130C<Sys::Syslog> 0.25) 1131 1132=item * 1133 1134C<setlogsock(\%options)> (added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.28) 1135 1136=back 1137 1138The available options are: 1139 1140=over 1141 1142=item * 1143 1144C<type> - equivalent to C<$sock_type>, selects the socket type (or 1145"mechanism"). An array reference can be passed to specify several 1146mechanisms to try, in the given order. 1147 1148=item * 1149 1150C<path> - equivalent to C<$stream_location>, sets the stream location. 1151Defaults to standard Unix location, or C<_PATH_LOG>. 1152 1153=item * 1154 1155C<timeout> - equivalent to C<$sock_timeout>, sets the socket timeout 1156in seconds. Defaults to 0 on all systems except S<Mac OS X> where it 1157is set to 0.25 sec. 1158 1159=item * 1160 1161C<host> - sets the hostname to send the messages to. Defaults to 1162the local host. 1163 1164=item * 1165 1166C<port> - sets the TCP or UDP port to connect to. Defaults to the 1167first standard syslog port available on the system. 1168 1169=back 1170 1171 1172The available mechanisms are: 1173 1174=over 1175 1176=item * 1177 1178C<"native"> - use the native C functions from your C<syslog(3)> library 1179(added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.15). 1180 1181=item * 1182 1183C<"eventlog"> - send messages to the Win32 events logger (Win32 only; 1184added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.19). 1185 1186=item * 1187 1188C<"tcp"> - connect to a TCP socket, on the C<syslog/tcp> or C<syslogng/tcp> 1189service. See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options. 1190 1191=item * 1192 1193C<"udp"> - connect to a UDP socket, on the C<syslog/udp> service. 1194See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options. 1195 1196=item * 1197 1198C<"inet"> - connect to an INET socket, either TCP or UDP, tried in that 1199order. See also the C<host>, C<port> and C<timeout> options. 1200 1201=item * 1202 1203C<"unix"> - connect to a UNIX domain socket (in some systems a character 1204special device). The name of that socket is given by the C<path> option 1205or, if omitted, the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your 1206system defines it), F</dev/log> or F</dev/conslog>, whichever is writable. 1207 1208=item * 1209 1210C<"stream"> - connect to the stream indicated by the C<path> option, or, 1211if omitted, the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your system 1212defines it), F</dev/log> or F</dev/conslog>, whichever is writable. For 1213example Solaris and IRIX system may prefer C<"stream"> instead of C<"unix">. 1214 1215=item * 1216 1217C<"pipe"> - connect to the named pipe indicated by the C<path> option, 1218or, if omitted, to the value returned by the C<_PATH_LOG> macro (if your 1219system defines it), or F</dev/log> (added in C<Sys::Syslog> 0.21). 1220HP-UX is a system which uses such a named pipe. 1221 1222=item * 1223 1224C<"console"> - send messages directly to the console, as for the C<"cons"> 1225option of C<openlog()>. 1226 1227=back 1228 1229The default is to try C<native>, C<tcp>, C<udp>, C<unix>, C<pipe>, C<stream>, 1230C<console>. 1231Under systems with the Win32 API, C<eventlog> will be added as the first 1232mechanism to try if C<Win32::EventLog> is available. 1233 1234Giving an invalid value for C<$sock_type> will C<croak>. 1235 1236B<Examples> 1237 1238Select the UDP socket mechanism: 1239 1240 setlogsock("udp"); 1241 1242Send messages using the TCP socket mechanism on a custom port: 1243 1244 setlogsock({ type => "tcp", port => 2486 }); 1245 1246Send messages to a remote host using the TCP socket mechanism: 1247 1248 setlogsock({ type => "tcp", host => $loghost }); 1249 1250Try the native, UDP socket then UNIX domain socket mechanisms: 1251 1252 setlogsock(["native", "udp", "unix"]); 1253 1254=over 1255 1256=item B<Note> 1257 1258Now that the "native" mechanism is supported by C<Sys::Syslog> and selected 1259by default, the use of the C<setlogsock()> function is discouraged because 1260other mechanisms are less portable across operating systems. Authors of 1261modules and programs that use this function, especially its cargo-cult form 1262C<setlogsock("unix")>, are advised to remove any occurrence of it unless they 1263specifically want to use a given mechanism (like TCP or UDP to connect to 1264a remote host). 1265 1266=back 1267 1268=item B<closelog()> 1269 1270Closes the log file and returns true on success. 1271 1272=back 1273 1274 1275=head1 THE RULES OF SYS::SYSLOG 1276 1277I<The First Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1278You do not call C<setlogsock>. 1279 1280I<The Second Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1281You B<do not> call C<setlogsock>. 1282 1283I<The Third Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1284The program crashes, C<die>s, calls C<closelog>, the log is over. 1285 1286I<The Fourth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1287One facility, one priority. 1288 1289I<The Fifth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1290One log at a time. 1291 1292I<The Sixth Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1293No C<syslog> before C<openlog>. 1294 1295I<The Seventh Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1296Logs will go on as long as they have to. 1297 1298I<The Eighth, and Final Rule of Sys::Syslog is:> 1299If this is your first use of Sys::Syslog, you must read the doc. 1300 1301 1302=head1 EXAMPLES 1303 1304An example: 1305 1306 openlog($program, 'cons,pid', 'user'); 1307 syslog('info', '%s', 'this is another test'); 1308 syslog('mail|warning', 'this is a better test: %d', time); 1309 closelog(); 1310 1311 syslog('debug', 'this is the last test'); 1312 1313Another example: 1314 1315 openlog("$program $$", 'ndelay', 'user'); 1316 syslog('notice', 'fooprogram: this is really done'); 1317 1318Example of use of C<%m>: 1319 1320 $! = 55; 1321 syslog('info', 'problem was %m'); # %m == $! in syslog(3) 1322 1323Log to UDP port on C<$remotehost> instead of logging locally: 1324 1325 setlogsock("udp", $remotehost); 1326 openlog($program, 'ndelay', 'user'); 1327 syslog('info', 'something happened over here'); 1328 1329 1330=head1 CONSTANTS 1331 1332=head2 Facilities 1333 1334=over 4 1335 1336=item * 1337 1338C<LOG_AUDIT> - audit daemon (IRIX); falls back to C<LOG_AUTH> 1339 1340=item * 1341 1342C<LOG_AUTH> - security/authorization messages 1343 1344=item * 1345 1346C<LOG_AUTHPRIV> - security/authorization messages (private) 1347 1348=item * 1349 1350C<LOG_CONSOLE> - C</dev/console> output (FreeBSD); falls back to C<LOG_USER> 1351 1352=item * 1353 1354C<LOG_CRON> - clock daemons (B<cron> and B<at>) 1355 1356=item * 1357 1358C<LOG_DAEMON> - system daemons without separate facility value 1359 1360=item * 1361 1362C<LOG_FTP> - FTP daemon 1363 1364=item * 1365 1366C<LOG_KERN> - kernel messages 1367 1368=item * 1369 1370C<LOG_INSTALL> - installer subsystem (Mac OS X); falls back to C<LOG_USER> 1371 1372=item * 1373 1374C<LOG_LAUNCHD> - launchd - general bootstrap daemon (Mac OS X); 1375falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON> 1376 1377=item * 1378 1379C<LOG_LFMT> - logalert facility; falls back to C<LOG_USER> 1380 1381=item * 1382 1383C<LOG_LOCAL0> through C<LOG_LOCAL7> - reserved for local use 1384 1385=item * 1386 1387C<LOG_LPR> - line printer subsystem 1388 1389=item * 1390 1391C<LOG_MAIL> - mail subsystem 1392 1393=item * 1394 1395C<LOG_NETINFO> - NetInfo subsystem (Mac OS X); falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON> 1396 1397=item * 1398 1399C<LOG_NEWS> - USENET news subsystem 1400 1401=item * 1402 1403C<LOG_NTP> - NTP subsystem (FreeBSD, NetBSD); falls back to C<LOG_DAEMON> 1404 1405=item * 1406 1407C<LOG_RAS> - Remote Access Service (VPN / PPP) (Mac OS X); 1408falls back to C<LOG_AUTH> 1409 1410=item * 1411 1412C<LOG_REMOTEAUTH> - remote authentication/authorization (Mac OS X); 1413falls back to C<LOG_AUTH> 1414 1415=item * 1416 1417C<LOG_SECURITY> - security subsystems (firewalling, etc.) (FreeBSD); 1418falls back to C<LOG_AUTH> 1419 1420=item * 1421 1422C<LOG_SYSLOG> - messages generated internally by B<syslogd> 1423 1424=item * 1425 1426C<LOG_USER> (default) - generic user-level messages 1427 1428=item * 1429 1430C<LOG_UUCP> - UUCP subsystem 1431 1432=back 1433 1434 1435=head2 Levels 1436 1437=over 4 1438 1439=item * 1440 1441C<LOG_EMERG> - system is unusable 1442 1443=item * 1444 1445C<LOG_ALERT> - action must be taken immediately 1446 1447=item * 1448 1449C<LOG_CRIT> - critical conditions 1450 1451=item * 1452 1453C<LOG_ERR> - error conditions 1454 1455=item * 1456 1457C<LOG_WARNING> - warning conditions 1458 1459=item * 1460 1461C<LOG_NOTICE> - normal, but significant, condition 1462 1463=item * 1464 1465C<LOG_INFO> - informational message 1466 1467=item * 1468 1469C<LOG_DEBUG> - debug-level message 1470 1471=back 1472 1473 1474=head1 DIAGNOSTICS 1475 1476=over 1477 1478=item C<Invalid argument passed to setlogsock> 1479 1480B<(F)> You gave C<setlogsock()> an invalid value for C<$sock_type>. 1481 1482=item C<eventlog passed to setlogsock, but no Win32 API available> 1483 1484B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use the Win32 event logger but the 1485operating system running the program isn't Win32 or does not provides Win32 1486compatible facilities. 1487 1488=item C<no connection to syslog available> 1489 1490B<(F)> C<syslog()> failed to connect to the specified socket. 1491 1492=item C<stream passed to setlogsock, but %s is not writable> 1493 1494B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a stream socket, but the given 1495path is not writable. 1496 1497=item C<stream passed to setlogsock, but could not find any device> 1498 1499B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a stream socket, but didn't 1500provide a path, and C<Sys::Syslog> was unable to find an appropriate one. 1501 1502=item C<tcp passed to setlogsock, but tcp service unavailable> 1503 1504B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a TCP socket, but the service 1505is not available on the system. 1506 1507=item C<syslog: expecting argument %s> 1508 1509B<(F)> You forgot to give C<syslog()> the indicated argument. 1510 1511=item C<syslog: invalid level/facility: %s> 1512 1513B<(F)> You specified an invalid level or facility. 1514 1515=item C<syslog: too many levels given: %s> 1516 1517B<(F)> You specified too many levels. 1518 1519=item C<syslog: too many facilities given: %s> 1520 1521B<(F)> You specified too many facilities. 1522 1523=item C<syslog: level must be given> 1524 1525B<(F)> You forgot to specify a level. 1526 1527=item C<udp passed to setlogsock, but udp service unavailable> 1528 1529B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a UDP socket, but the service 1530is not available on the system. 1531 1532=item C<unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available> 1533 1534B<(W)> You asked C<setlogsock()> to use a UNIX socket, but C<Sys::Syslog> 1535was unable to find an appropriate an appropriate device. 1536 1537=back 1538 1539 1540=head1 HISTORY 1541 1542C<Sys::Syslog> is a core module, part of the standard Perl distribution 1543since 1990. At this time, modules as we know them didn't exist, the 1544Perl library was a collection of F<.pl> files, and the one for sending 1545syslog messages with was simply F<lib/syslog.pl>, included with Perl 3.0. 1546It was converted as a module with Perl 5.0, but had a version number 1547only starting with Perl 5.6. Here is a small table with the matching 1548Perl and C<Sys::Syslog> versions. 1549 1550 Sys::Syslog Perl 1551 ----------- ---- 1552 undef 5.0.0 ~ 5.5.4 1553 0.01 5.6.* 1554 0.03 5.8.0 1555 0.04 5.8.1, 5.8.2, 5.8.3 1556 0.05 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6 1557 0.06 5.8.7 1558 0.13 5.8.8 1559 0.22 5.10.0 1560 0.27 5.8.9, 5.10.1 ~ 5.14.2 1561 0.29 5.16.0, 5.16.1 1562 1563 1564=head1 SEE ALSO 1565 1566=head2 Other modules 1567 1568L<Log::Log4perl> - Perl implementation of the Log4j API 1569 1570L<Log::Dispatch> - Dispatches messages to one or more outputs 1571 1572L<Log::Report> - Report a problem, with exceptions and language support 1573 1574=head2 Manual Pages 1575 1576L<syslog(3)> 1577 1578SUSv3 issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 edition, 1579L<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/syslog.h.html> 1580 1581GNU C Library documentation on syslog, 1582L<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Syslog.html> 1583 1584Solaris 10 documentation on syslog, 1585L<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5168/syslog-3c?a=view> 1586 1587Mac OS X documentation on syslog, 1588L<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/syslog.3.html> 1589 1590IRIX 6.5 documentation on syslog, 1591L<http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=3c+syslog> 1592 1593AIX 5L 5.3 documentation on syslog, 1594L<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/syslog.htm> 1595 1596HP-UX 11i documentation on syslog, 1597L<http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/syslog.3C.html> 1598 1599Tru64 5.1 documentation on syslog, 1600L<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN3/0193____.HTM> 1601 1602Stratus VOS 15.1, 1603L<http://stratadoc.stratus.com/vos/15.1.1/r502-01/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?context=r502-01&file=ch5r502-01bi.html> 1604 1605=head2 RFCs 1606 1607I<RFC 3164 - The BSD syslog Protocol>, L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html> 1608-- Please note that this is an informational RFC, and therefore does not 1609specify a standard of any kind. 1610 1611I<RFC 3195 - Reliable Delivery for syslog>, L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3195.html> 1612 1613=head2 Articles 1614 1615I<Syslogging with Perl>, L<http://lexington.pm.org/meetings/022001.html> 1616 1617=head2 Event Log 1618 1619Windows Event Log, 1620L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wes/wes/windows_event_log.asp> 1621 1622 1623=head1 AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1624 1625Tom Christiansen E<lt>F<tchrist (at) perl.com>E<gt> and Larry Wall 1626E<lt>F<larry (at) wall.org>E<gt>. 1627 1628UNIX domain sockets added by Sean Robinson 1629E<lt>F<robinson_s (at) sc.maricopa.edu>E<gt> with support from Tim Bunce 1630E<lt>F<Tim.Bunce (at) ig.co.uk>E<gt> and the C<perl5-porters> mailing list. 1631 1632Dependency on F<syslog.ph> replaced with XS code by Tom Hughes 1633E<lt>F<tom (at) compton.nu>E<gt>. 1634 1635Code for C<constant()>s regenerated by Nicholas Clark E<lt>F<nick (at) ccl4.org>E<gt>. 1636 1637Failover to different communication modes by Nick Williams 1638E<lt>F<Nick.Williams (at) morganstanley.com>E<gt>. 1639 1640Extracted from core distribution for publishing on the CPAN by 1641SE<eacute>bastien Aperghis-Tramoni E<lt>sebastien (at) aperghis.netE<gt>. 1642 1643XS code for using native C functions borrowed from C<L<Unix::Syslog>>, 1644written by Marcus Harnisch E<lt>F<marcus.harnisch (at) gmx.net>E<gt>. 1645 1646Yves Orton suggested and helped for making C<Sys::Syslog> use the native 1647event logger under Win32 systems. 1648 1649Jerry D. Hedden and Reini Urban provided greatly appreciated help to 1650debug and polish C<Sys::Syslog> under Cygwin. 1651 1652 1653=head1 BUGS 1654 1655Please report any bugs or feature requests to 1656C<bug-sys-syslog (at) rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at 1657L<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sys-Syslog>. 1658I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on 1659your bug as I make changes. 1660 1661 1662=head1 SUPPORT 1663 1664You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. 1665 1666 perldoc Sys::Syslog 1667 1668You can also look for information at: 1669 1670=over 4 1671 1672=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation 1673 1674L<http://annocpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog> 1675 1676=item * CPAN Ratings 1677 1678L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Sys-Syslog> 1679 1680=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker 1681 1682L<http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Sys-Syslog> 1683 1684=item * Search CPAN 1685 1686L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Syslog/> 1687 1688=item * MetaCPAN 1689 1690L<https://metacpan.org/module/Sys::Syslog> 1691 1692=item * Perl Documentation 1693 1694L<http://perldoc.perl.org/Sys/Syslog.html> 1695 1696=back 1697 1698 1699=head1 COPYRIGHT 1700 1701Copyright (C) 1990-2012 by Larry Wall and others. 1702 1703 1704=head1 LICENSE 1705 1706This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 1707under the same terms as Perl itself. 1708 1709=cut 1710 1711=begin comment 1712 1713Notes for the future maintainer (even if it's still me..) 1714- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1715 1716Using Google Code Search, I search who on Earth was relying on $host being 1717public. It found 5 hits: 1718 1719* First was inside Indigo Star Perl2exe documentation. Just an old version 1720of Sys::Syslog. 1721 1722 1723* One real hit was inside DalWeathDB, a weather related program. It simply 1724does a 1725 1726 $Sys::Syslog::host = '127.0.0.1'; 1727 1728- L<http://www.gallistel.net/nparker/weather/code/> 1729 1730 1731* Two hits were in TPC, a fax server thingy. It does a 1732 1733 $Sys::Syslog::host = $TPC::LOGHOST; 1734 1735but also has this strange piece of code: 1736 1737 # work around perl5.003 bug 1738 sub Sys::Syslog::hostname {} 1739 1740I don't know what bug the author referred to. 1741 1742- L<http://www.tpc.int/> 1743- L<ftp://ftp-usa.tpc.int/pub/tpc/server/UNIX/> 1744 1745 1746* Last hit was in Filefix, which seems to be a FIDOnet mail program (!). 1747This one does not use $host, but has the following piece of code: 1748 1749 sub Sys::Syslog::hostname 1750 { 1751 use Sys::Hostname; 1752 return hostname; 1753 } 1754 1755I guess this was a more elaborate form of the previous bit, maybe because 1756of a bug in Sys::Syslog back then? 1757 1758- L<ftp://ftp.kiae.su/pub/unix/fido/> 1759 1760 1761Links 1762----- 1763Linux Fast-STREAMS 1764- L<http://www.openss7.org/streams.html> 1765 1766II12021: SYSLOGD HOWTO TCPIPINFO (z/OS, OS/390, MVS) 1767- L<http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II12021> 1768 1769Getting the most out of the Event Viewer 1770- L<http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/evtvwr.asp?print=true> 1771 1772Log events to the Windows NT Event Log with JNI 1773- L<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2001/jw-0928-ntmessages.html> 1774 1775=end comment 1776 1777