as they ought to be. The description of SA_RESTART was a little
unobvious to me in the man page, so i missed it. Thanks to Bruce for
spotting this.
Submitted by: bde
would cause syslogd to eventually kill innocent processes in the
system over time (note: not `could' but `would'). Many thanks to my
colleague Mirko for digging into the kernel structures and providing
me with the debugging framework to find out about the nature of this
bug (and to isolate that syslogd was the culprit) in a rather large
set of distributed machines at client sites where this happened
occasionally.
Whenever a child process was no longer responsive, or when syslogd
receives a SIGHUP so it closes all its logging file descriptors, for
any descriptor that refers to a pipe syslogd enters the data about the
old logging child process into a `dead queue', where it is being
removed from (and the status of the dead kitten being fetched) upon
receipt of a SIGCHLD. However, there's a high probability that the
SIGCHLD already arrives before the child's data are actually entered
into the dead queue inside the SIGHUP handler, so the SIGCHLD handler
has nothing to fetch and remove and simply continues. Whenever this
happens, the process'es data remain on the dead queue forever, and
since domark() tried to get rid of totally unresponsive children by
first sending a SIGTERM and later a SIGKILL, it was only a matter of
time until the system had recycled enough PIDs so an innocent process
got shot to death.
Fix the race by masking SIGHUP and SIGCHLD from both handlers mutually.
Add additional bandaids ``just in case'', i. e. don't enter a process
into the dead queue if we can't signal it (this should only happen in
case it is already dead by that time so we can fetch the status
immediately instead of deferring this to the SIGCHLD handler); for the
kill(2) inside domark(), check for an error status (/* Can't happen */
:) and remove it from the dead queue in this case (which if it would
have been there in the first place would have reduced the problem to a
statistically minimal likelihood so i certainly would never have
noticed the bug at all :).
Mirko also reviewed the fix in priciple (mutual blocking of both
signals inside the handlers), but not the actual code.
Reviewed by: Mirko Kaffka <mirko@interface-business.de>
Approved by: jkh
vogons, set the size of the receive buffer to 1 and rely on the kernel to
simply drop incoming packets. The logging code was buggy anyway.
Use socklen_t instead of int for the length argument to recvfrom.
Add a 'continue' at the end of a loop for ANSI conformance.
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
-current (Thanks Harald). However, on my attempt to try this on -STABLE,
I found that when forwarding to another host the actual messages gets lost.
This is due to a wrong index because when the -v option was added, the
indexes shifted one place.
PR: 7407
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
This allows one to specify additional sockets in the unix domain
that syslogd listens to. Its primary use is to create log sockets in
chroot environments.
Obtained from:OpenBSD (with a bug fixed d
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
This change is likely to introduce a few linebreaks in the boot
messages, but that is not easy to solve without breaking syslogd
semantics. Maybe the right fix is to return an integral number
of lines from the kernel driver.
Noticed by: dg
It is important that we keep the ability to send packets to a remote
server and that the packets come from our well-known port, also in
that case.
Reviewed by: peter, rgrimes.
found that my syslogd is now running them for several months...
Add an option to syslogd to restrict the IP addresses that are allowed
to log to this syslogd. It's too late to develop the inter-syslogd
communications protocol mentioned in the BUGS section, some 10 years
too late. Thus, restricting the IP address range is about the most
effective change we can do if we want to allow incoming syslog
messages at all.
IMHO, we should encourage the system administrators to use this option,
and thus provide a knob in /etc/rc.* for it, defaulting to -a 127.0.0.1/32
(just as a hint about the usage).
Please state opinions about whether to merge this change into 2.2 or
not (i've got it running on RELENG_2_2 anyway).
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
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
bug in syslogd which causes it to die after random amounts of time (widely
reported), this at least allows the administrator to easily restart it
without wondering why it simply exits again each time.
