Subject: Re: Next try: sysklogd 1.4
From: G.W. Wettstein (greg@wind.enjellic.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 18:06:19 CEST
On Sep 19, 2:36am, Solar Designer wrote:
} Subject: Re: Next try: sysklogd 1.4
> No, I'm not suggesting to add the support back and risk introducing
> even more bugs into this overly-complicated code, but the problems
> should be documented (at least mention that sysklogd 1.4+ is not to
> be used on libc 5 systems).
Just a couple of comments. My life is now straightened out enough
that I hope to come up with a version 2.0 of sysklogd in the near
future. I hope to do this in conjunciton with the 2.4 kernel release.
I am still using libc5 in a number of production systems. I think
that dropping support for these libraries without a major revision
bump, ie 2.0, might be a bit premature.
I would have to sit and think a bit to determine whether or not there
was some method at runtime of figuring out what was usable or what
wasn't usable. It seems that auto-sensing and/or a command line
switch would be a better alternative to breaking the libc5 systems.
> Also, the now released(?) sysklogd-1.4 still tries to use a stream
> socket in its own syslog.c (why does it need one?), which is used by
> klogd. I suspect that klogd is once again broken by this change.
When all this was put together the library version of syslog.c
disallowed logging from kern.* facilities. A modified version was
needed in order for klogd to route messages into the syslog system.
> Signed,
> Solar Designer
}-- End of excerpt from Solar Designer
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