user unless they come directly from the kernel. Document this and
add a flag to syslogd which prevents this conversion.
Sort getopt args while I'm at it.
PR: 21788
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
a similar way to the way it can select messages from a given program.
Lines beginning with "+hostname" or "#+hostname" select messaes
from that hostname and lines beginning with "-hostname" or "#-hostname"
match messages not from that hostname.
There are some significant style issues left in the original program
selection code and the man page. This should be cleared up in some
later commits.
Reviewed by: sheldonh
Based on an original patch by: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Man page stylist: sheldonh
should be used from now on for anything security but not auth-related.
Included are updates for all relevant manpages and also to /etc files,
creating a new /var/log/security. Nothing in the system logs to
/var/log/security yet as of the time of this commit.
Reviewed by: rgrimes, imp, chris
category.
e.g. separate out ipfw entries to a separate file.
Reviewed by: (briefly) phk
Submitted by: archie@whistle.com
Obtained from: Whistle source tree
stable now at a customer's site.
Finally add the ability to syslogd to pipe particular messages through
an arbitrary filtering command. Idea stolen from IRIX.
This code is courtesy of the interface business GmbH, Dresden.
Comment about whether to also merge this into 2.2 or not, please.
Reviewed by: (long ago) peter