popa3d-users - [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility (fwd)

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Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0210201641280.25252-102000@zigzag.sentia.nl>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:48:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Camiel Dobbelaar <cd@...tia.nl>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
cc: Simon Williams <simon@...dns-yet.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility (fwd)

Simon,

I hope you don't mind, but I'm forwarding this to the popa3d mailinglist.
Note that I'm not the author of popa3d, that's Solar Designer.

--
Cam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:45:42 +0100
From: Simon Williams <simon@...dns-yet.org.uk>
To: Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@...ckware.com>,
     Camiel Dobbelaar <cd@...tia.nl>
Subject: [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility

Hi,

It was pointed out by AthlonRob in alt.os.linux.slackware that popa3d
wasn't logging as LOG_MAIL to syslog.  I dug through the source &
found it was logging as LOG_DAEMON.  While it's true that popa3d is a
daemon, the syslog.conf man page has this to say:

 ----------------------------------------------------------
                                     The facility specifies
 the subsystem that produced the  message,  i.e.  all  mail
 programs log with the mail facility (LOG_MAIL) if they log
 using syslog.
 ----------------------------------------------------------

I noticed the INSTALL file mentions editing params.h to suit your
needs, but my opinion is that LOG_MAIL is a better default option.
I have attached a patch to popa3d to make it log as LOG_MAIL instead
of LOG_DAEMON for easier log filtering, in case Camiel wants to
include it in popa3d or Pat wants to include it in Slackware.

Cheers,
-- 
 Simon Williams <simon@...dns-yet.org.uk> **** GPG: F4A23C69
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Download attachment "popa3d.logmail.gz" of type "APPLICATION/X-GUNZIP" (223 bytes)

Download attachment "SlackBuild.gz" of type "APPLICATION/X-GUNZIP" (326 bytes)

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