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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2015-03-04 11:17:20 +0100
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2015-03-12 10:15:57 +0100
commitd9074f191e4a6057f51f3a0d4bd0973366e245e2 (patch)
treef3d66b5fb6c37bbfd6da7a07a41f7061ab449c13
parent753f2807c9297d4226b7cfe44fd145f9e3e2b40b (diff)
downloadutil-linux-d9074f191e4a6057f51f3a0d4bd0973366e245e2.tar.gz
logger: fix inconsistent format regression when logging locally
The message format when writing to local sockets is inconsistent. Example: $ ./logger --stderr test <5>Mär 4 11:03:30 logger: test $ ./logger -u /dev/log --stderr test <5>1 2015-03-04T11:03:31.699841+0100 ubuntu1404esp rger - [timeQuality tzKnown="1" isSynced="1" syncAccuracy="29000"] test The regression was introduced with 4de2e8a03859aaab2c25dc98f33409cd28de6acc As far as the commit comments and man page indicates, this was meant to affect remote system logging only, but it also affects local logging when the -u option is given. This causes problems with receivers who do not expect full-blown RFC format on the log socket, like rsyslog. In consequence, this can also affect log analysis programs and invalidate some of their results. The patch corrects the behaviour so that the same old-style format is used for any type of local logging. New-style can always be selected by command line-options. RFC5424 is still the default for remote logging, as intended in the orignal commit. Result with the patch: $ ./logger --stderr test <5>Mär 4 11:15:35 logger: test $ ./logger -u /dev/log --stderr test <5>Mär 4 11:15:40 logger: test $ ./logger -u /dev/log --rfc5424 --stderr test <5>1 2015-03-04T11:21:28.796170+0100 ubuntu1404esp rger - [timeQuality tzKnown="1" isSynced="1" syncAccuracy="27500"] test
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/logger.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.c b/misc-utils/logger.c
index 1e7e2dc10..6b7ce1b83 100644
--- a/misc-utils/logger.c
+++ b/misc-utils/logger.c
@@ -481,14 +481,12 @@ static void logger_open(struct logger_ctl *ctl)
ctl->syslogfp = syslog_rfc5424;
return;
}
- if (ctl->unix_socket) {
- ctl->fd = unix_socket(ctl, ctl->unix_socket, ctl->socket_type);
- if (!ctl->syslogfp)
- ctl->syslogfp = syslog_rfc5424;
- return;
- }
- ctl->fd = unix_socket(ctl, _PATH_DEVLOG, ctl->socket_type);
- ctl->syslogfp = syslog_local;
+ if (!ctl->unix_socket)
+ ctl->unix_socket = _PATH_DEVLOG;
+
+ ctl->fd = unix_socket(ctl, ctl->unix_socket, ctl->socket_type);
+ if (!ctl->syslogfp)
+ ctl->syslogfp = syslog_local;
}
static void logger_command_line(const struct logger_ctl *ctl, char **argv)