Re: SoC status: Improve syslogd

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

Hello,
the Google Summer of code is coming to an end and I post my last short 
status update before the final report.

The major milestones since my midterm status report were:
* a version of syslog(3) to send syslog-protocol messages, and
* the first working implementation of syslog-sign (for details see 
http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/syslogd/sign.html)


My last open tasks for this week are:

* Add a new API vsyslogng_r() to libc.
My first approach was to add a heuristic to syslog(3) and use the same 
function for all logging. Because there were concerns about 
misinterpreting messages I will move the code into a new syslogng() 
function with additional parameters for Message ID and Structured Data.

* Write a detailed documentation.
I try to find the right style to compile a complete but concise 
documentation so I can fit all required information for TLS and 
signature usage into the man pages.

* Add syslog-protocol format to newsyslog.
newsyslog should detect if a rotated logfile is in syslog-protocol 
format so it can write its "logfile rotated" message in the right 
format.  (Are there other programs that access the logfiles and expect a 
certain format?)

--
Martin