Re: SoC: Improve syslogd

[Martin Schütte <lists%mschuette.name@localhost>]

Hubert Feyrer schrieb:
> > local log submission (from syslog(3) to syslogd) to use a stream 
> > instead of a datagram socket, thus providing reliable submission and 
> > possible rate limits.
> "a stream"? System V STREAMs are not available in NetBSD AFAIK, or what 
> exactly do you mean?

I mean a local stream socket as created by
"socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0)" --
instead of "socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)",
which is traditionally used for syslog(3).

> > - syslog-sign defines signature messages for authentication, integrity 
> > and correct sequencing of syslog messages. (For this part I am going 
> > to build upon the afaik only existing implementation by Albert Mietus.)
> What license is that existing implementation under?

It is (or was) an extension to FreeBSD's syslogd and is licenced under a 
BSD licence with advertising clause.

Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/syslog-sec/
Copyright: 
http://syslog-sec.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/syslog-sec/syslog-sec/FreeBSD-syslogd/COPYRIGHT

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Martin