conf/62368: 5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed

[Pat Lashley]

The following reply was made to PR conf/62368; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd at volant.org>
To: Erik Kline <kline at netapp.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/62368: 5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:58:59 -0800

 --On Wednesday, February 04, 2004 17:24:17 -0800 Erik Kline <kline at netapp.com> wrote:
 
 >> Number:         62368
 >> Category:       conf
 >> Synopsis:       5.2-RELEASE syslog.conf appears to be malformed
 >
 >> Description:
 > /etc/syslog.conf contains the following lines at the tail end of the file:
 >
 > !startslip
 > *.*                                             /var/log/slip.log
 > !ppp
 > *.*                                             /var/log/ppp.log
 >
 > These don't appear to be syntactically valid. Any entries appended
 > after these aren't parsed and processed. CVSup today (04 Feb 2004)
 > shows that /usr/src/etc/syslog.conf remains malformed.
 
 man syslog.conf:
 
      Each block of lines is separated from the previous block by a program or
      hostname specification.  A block will only log messages corresponding to
      the most recent program and hostname specifications given.  Thus, with a
      block which selects `ppp' as the program, directly followed by a block
      that selects messages from the hostname `dialhost', the second block will
      only log messages from the ppp(8) program on dialhost.
 
      A program specification is a line beginning with `#!prog' or `!prog' (the
      former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing
      syslog.conf files, for example) and the following blocks will be associ-
      ated with calls to syslog(3) from that specific program.  A program spec-
      ification for `foo' will also match any message logged by the kernel with
      the prefix `foo: '.  The `#!+prog' or `!+prog' specification works just
      like the previous one, and the `#!-prog' or `!-prog' specification will
      match any message but the ones from that program.  A hostname specifica-
      tion of the form `#+hostname' or `+hostname' means the following blocks
      will be applied to messages received from the specified hostname.  Alter-
      natively, the hostname specification `#-hostname' or `-hostname' causes
      the following blocks to be applied to messages from any host but the one
      specified.  If the hostname is given as `@', the local hostname will be
      used.  A program or hostname specification may be reset by giving the
      program or hostname as `*'.
 
 The reason that lines added after that point don't appear to be
 parsed or processed is that they apply only to messages from programs
 named 'ppp'.
 
 
 
 -Pat