[Bug 221742] syslogd include directive reads but disregards all but the last included .conf file

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            Bug ID: 221742
           Summary: syslogd include directive reads but disregards all but
                    the last included .conf file
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.1-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: Mark.Martinec at ijs.si

The 11.1 release brought a very desirable feature to syslogd:

$ man syslog.conf :
  A special include keyword can be used to include all files with names
  ending in '.conf' and not beginning with a '.' contained in the directory
  following the keyword.

but ...

It turns out that of all the *.conf files found in the included
directory /etc/syslog.d, only entries found in the (alphabetically)
*last* file there are taken into account, all other entries in
remaining included files are just ignored.

What is interesting is that all log files listed in all included
conf files are indeed created at the syslogd start time, it's just
that they never receive any log messages.

Running syslogd with a -d (debug) option confirms this: all included
files are indeed read, but the reported matrix only reflects
log entries from the main syslog.conf file and from the last of the
included files:


  $ cat /etc/syslog.conf
  include         /etc/syslog.d

  $ ls -l /etc/syslog.d
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28 Aug 23 17:15 aaa.conf
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32 Aug 23 17:15 ddd.conf
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28 Aug 23 17:15 mmm.conf

  $ cat /etc/syslog.d/aaa.conf
  auth.info       /var/log/auth.log

  $ cat /etc/syslog.d/ddd.conf
  daemon.info     /var/log/daemon.log

  $ cat /etc/syslog.d/mmm.conf
  mail.info       /var/log/mail.log

  # syslogd -d -F
  socksetup: new socket fd is 6
  socksetup: new socket fd is 7
  listening on inet and/or inet6 socket
  sending on inet and/or inet6 socket
  off & running....
  init
  loading timezone data via tzset()
  Trying to include files in '/etc/syslog.d'
  reading /etc/syslog.d/aaa.conf
  cfline("auth.info       /var/log/auth.log", f, "*", "*")
  reading /etc/syslog.d/ddd.conf
  cfline("daemon.info     /var/log/daemon.log", f, "*", "*")
  reading /etc/syslog.d/mmm.conf
  cfline("mail.info       /var/log/mail.log", f, "*", "*")
  X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/mail.log
  logmsg: pri 56, flags 4, from sleepy, msg syslogd: restart
  syslogd: restarted
  logmsg: pri 6, flags 4, from sleepy, msg syslogd: kernel boot file is
/boot/kernel/kernel
  syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel

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