Revision history for Sys-Syslog 0.36 -- 2019-10-22 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Tests] - RT #127454 / GitHub PR #8: Intermittent failures on OpenBSD and other platforms (Jim Keenan). 0.35 -- 2016-09-01 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Security] - CPAN RT #116543: CVE-2016-1238: avoid loading optional modules from default . (Tony Cook). Patch rewrote to no longer depend upon @INC. [Documentation] - openlog() options: mention the version of Sys::Syslog they were added. - Update HISTORY. - Update some broken links. [Distribution] - Converted the Changes file to CPAN::Changes::Spec format. - Improved a bit the readability of the ticket numbers. [Tests] - GitHub PR #4: use lexical instead of global filehandles (Alex Balhatchet). 0.34 -- 2016-05-06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #105117: use %e where available, fall back to %d and a regexp where not (Markus Laker). - CPAN RT #105152: the noeol option was ignored (Markus Laker). - CPAN RT #98446: trailing new line with perror (Alexander Bluhm). - CPAN RT #90538: facility from openlog() is not used (Anton Yuzhaninov). [Portability] - CPAN RT #104710: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched, because of missing CCFLAGS (CHORNY, KMX). - No longer inheriting from Exporter doesn't work before Perl 5.8.3. - CPAN RT #90212: Support non-Windows platforms where syslog.h is not defined (Brian Fraser). - CPAN RT #90224: setlocale() is not available everywhere, for example on Android (Brian Fraser). - CPAN RT #90218: getproto*() and getserv*() functions are not available everywhere (Brian Fraser). [Documentation] - CPAN RT #102058: mention the repository in the documentation. 0.33 -- 2013-05-24 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #82531: Invalid usage of POSIX::_exit (Alexander Berger). [Optimizations] - No longer inherit from Exporter. - Load Fcntl only when necessary. [Documentation] - Add links to other logging modules. - CPAN RT #80398: Typo spotted by alfirth@gmail.com - Typo spotted by David Steinbrunner. [Tests] - CPAN RT #79683: Added delays in t/facilities-routing.t (Jerome Quelin). 0.32 -- 2012-09-14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #69040: Don't modify @_ in syslog(). - Restore compatibility with Perl 5.6.0. [Documentation] - Perl RT #81858: Fix some spelling errors (Peter J. Acklam). 0.31 -- 2012-08-18 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Level 'emerg' could not be used since v0.29. - Setting a message facility with syslog() was broken since v0.29 (Noel Butler). - CPAN RT #69992: Make setlogsock() only use the requested mechanism, restoring way it worked in v0.27 and before (Niko Tyni). - CPAN RT #69986: setlogsock() doesn't return undef on failure (Niko Tyni). - CPAN RT #69997: Use the default UDP socket timeout on GNU/kFreeBSD as well, and lower it to a more sensible value (Niko Tyni). - CPAN RT #75827: syslog() logging everything regardless of log mask when using using numeric LOG_* macros (Bryan Thale). [Documentation] - Don't highlight "the Rules of Sys::Syslog" from the Description. [Tests] - Added t/facilities-routing.t [Distribution] - Add meta-information in Makefile.PL 0.30 -- 2012-08-15 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #69310: Avoid a POSIX::strftime issue on Windows (Michael Ludwig). - CPAN RT #77577: Build on Haiku-OS (Tony Cook). - CPAN RT #77578: Silence a compilation warning (Tony Cook). - CPAN RT #78044: Don't call getservbyname() when the port is specified (Chan Wilson). [Tests] - t/syslog.t no longer needs to chdir under PERL_CORE. 0.29 -- 2011-04-18 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) #PerlQA2011 [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #55215: Sys::Syslog might call exit which triggers DESTROY (Alexander Berger). - CPAN RT #55151: Allow temporary facility with native mechanism (Tim Jenkins). - CPAN RT #50928: Convert Win32 files to Unix EOLs (Steve Hay). - CPAN RT #50534: Unwanted space at the end of syslog message (Eugene V. Lyubimkin). - CPAN RT #49877: Options not reset after closelog() (Herbert Brezina). - CPAN RT #48386: Add Win32::EventLog as a prerequisite (kmx and Laurent Dami). [New features] - CPAN RT #50534: Added options noeol and nonul. [Distribution] - Set INSTALLDIRS to "site" when installed on Perl 5.11+ 0.28 -- 2011-04-16 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) #PerlQA2011 [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #56084: Reset connection tracking vars (Vladimir Marek). - CPAN RT #56826: Avoid memory corruption when closelog() is called twice (Andreas Jaekel). - CPAN RT #64287: Make strftime() Windows-compatible (Dave Stafford). [New features] - New API for setlogsock(), in order to allow the setting of new options. Thanks to Jake Scott for the idea. [Portability] - CPAN RT #44410: Provide fallback macros in Syslog.xs in order to compile on Novell Netware. [Internal changes] - Modify can_load() so it can print the warnings if desired. [Tests] - In blead, the distribution was moved from ext/Sys/Syslog to ext/Sys-Syslog. t/constants.t had to be fixed (Vincent Pit). - CPAN RT #53317: In core, Sys-Syslog was moved to cpan/, thus making t/constants.t unable to find macros.all (David Mitchell). - CPAN RT #64716: Skip t/data-validation.t if the available version of POE::Component::Server::Syslog is too old. [Distribution] - Bleadperl no longer require an empty MAN3PODS (Nicholas Clark). - Removed unneeded modules in Makefile.PL (Nicholas Clark). [Documentation] - Recreated Sys::Syslog history from the unified git repository. - Added a section to list the matching Perl and Sys::Syslog version. - CPAN RT #49859: Removed a dead link (Leon Brocard). 0.27 -- 2008-09-21 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Fixed compilation on Win32, thanks to Serguei Trouchelle. Also added stubs so calling the XS functions will never fail. [Tests] - t/pod.t now also uses Pod::Checker. 0.26 -- 2008-06-16 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Make Sys::Syslog works with Perl 5.10.0 (because of ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs). [Internal changes] - setlogsock() is now a little more strict about its arguments. 0.25 -- 2008-05-17 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #34691: Fixed an incorrect call to sysopen() which prevented Sys::Syslog from working on some Solaris systems. Thanks to Paul Townsend. - CPAN RT #34753: Fixed a slowness introduced in v0.19 (which was to work around OSX syslog own slowness). Thanks to Alex Efros. - CPAN RT #35952: Fixed a bug with the "nofatal" option. - CPAN RT #35189: Fixed a bug in xlate(). - Fixed build on Win32, thanks to Adam Kennedy. [New features] - setlogsock() now interprets the second argument as the hostname for network mechanisms. [Tests] - Improved t/pod.t with Pod::Checker. [Distribution] - Add AUTHOR to WriteMakefile() in order to fix the META.yml generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. 0.24 -- 2007-12-31 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPANT RT #32001: Skip the setlogsock('stream') tests when /dev/log is unavailable (Brendan O'Dea). 0.23 -- 2007-11-12 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Fixed a too liberal test in the "pipe" mechanism, thanks to Jan Dubois. [Tests] - Better handling of Perl 5.005, thanks to CPAN Tester Slaven Rezic. [Distribution] - fallback/syslog.h was missing from MANIFEST (thanks to CPAN Tester Matthew Musgrove). 0.22 -- 2007-11-08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #29875: Added workaround SpamAssassin overzealous logging features. [New features] - Added support for PERROR option. - Support for SYSLOG on z/OS, thanks to Chun Bing Ge. [Internal changes] - Prevent $@ from being visible outside the module, in trying to address the problem reported in CPAN RT #29875. [Documentation] - CPAN RT #29451: Add Copyright notice. Thanks to Allison Randal for her advice. - New speaking about Win32 API instead of Win32 operating system. 0.21 -- 2007-09-14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - setlogsock(eventlog) returned true even when it shouldn't have. - CPAN RT #24431: Added workaround for Mac OS X syslogd. [New features] - Added "pipe" mechanism in order to support HP-UX named pipe. Thanks to H.Merijn Brand and PROCURA. [Internal changes] - Sys::Syslog works again on Perl 5.005, thanks to Nicholas Clark. 0.20 -- 2007-09-05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Documentation] - Added README.win32 which was missing in MANIFEST. 0.19 -- 2007-09-05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin. - CPAN RT #20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed. Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug. - CPAN RT #21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1 - CPAN RT #21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs(). - CPAN RT #21866: Silence warnings in openlog(). - CPAN RT #25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log(). via syslog(). - Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide fallback value for non-standard macros. - Mark Blackman and Edmund von der Burg identified and fixed the random failures appearing on OSX, caused by a UDP timeout. [New features] - Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton. - Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX. - Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro. [Internal changes] - Merged changes from Jerry D. Hedden to use ppport.h only when not built from core distribution (blead@30657). [Tests] - t/syslog.t now generates a more detailed TAP output. - Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t - Added regression tests for CPAN RT #21866 and #25488. [Documentation] - CPAN RT #26097: man pages were not installed. - Added the Sys::Syslog Rules. - Added example script eg/syslog.pl 0.18 -- 2006-08-28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Rewrote the way the default identifiant is constructed. [Tests] - CPAN RT #20946: Removed the console mechanism from the main test loop because writing to the console hangs on several systems. [Documentation] - Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock(). 0.17 -- 2006-07-23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix(). [Internal changes] - Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed some dead code. - Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in the 0.14 version. [Documentation] - CPAN RT #20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock(). 0.16 -- 2006-06-20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Perl RT #20557: Save errno before trying to connect. [New features] - Perl RT #35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path. - Now try the "native" mechanism first. [Tests] - Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and later. [Documentation] - Added documentation about the "native" mechanism. - Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT. 0.15 -- 2006-06-10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [New features] - CPAN RT #17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog(). - Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controlled by the warnings category of the same name. - Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions. [Internal changes] - Removed most "our" variables. - Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and parentheses. 0.14 -- 2006-05-25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - CPAN RT #19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities. [Internal changes] - Removed useless "&". - Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the code here and there. - Added new macros from Mac OS X. [Tests] - Added more tests in order to increase coverage. [Documentation] - CPAN RT #19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask(). - Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles. - Corrected minor things in Changes. 0.13 -- 2006-01-11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Internal changes] - Applied Gisle Aas' patch for a better handling of error messages, then optimized it. - Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service the lookup attempt tried to use. - Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly use INADDR_LOOPBACK. - Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it. - Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket. [Tests] - CPAN RT #16980: Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on Solaris. Corrected by previous patches. - CPAN RT #16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped. 0.12 -- 2006-01-07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Documentation] - Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog. [Tests] - Merged some modifications from bleadperl. - Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception. - Improved t/constant.t - Rewrote t/constants.t because future versions of ExtUtils::Constant will prevent the constant() function from being directly called. 0.11 -- 2005-12-28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart. [New features] - Can now export and use the macros. - Support for three Exporter tags. - XSLoader is now optional. [Internal changes] - No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed. - CPAN RT #16604: Use local timestamp. [Distribution] - Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target. [Documentation] - Improved documentation. [Tests] - Added more tests to t/syslog.t in order to increase code coverage. 0.10 -- 2005-12-08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Documentation] - Improved documentation. [Tests] - Added -T to t/syslog.t - Added t/constants.t to check the macros. - Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t 0.09 -- 2005-12-06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [Bugfixes] - Escape percent signs in error message when interpolating %m (Ronald J. Kimball). [Internal changes] - Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented. [Distribution] - CPANized from blead@26281. - Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionally used, with a fallback in the case it's not available. - Bumped version to 0.09 [Documentation] - Added support and license information. [Tests] - Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More 0.08 -- 2005-12-03 [New features] - syslog() can now accept a message without printf() escapes and arguments (Gisle Aas). [Documentation] - Document that openlog() might die (Rafael Garcia-Suarez). 0.07 -- 2005-06-27 [Internal changes] - Use XSLoader instead of DynaLoader (Alexey Tourbin). [Documentation] - Shows the correct way to use syslog() (Dave Mitchell). 0.06 -- 2004-12-14 [New features] - Allow escaping %m as %%m in Sys::Syslog format strings (Rafael Garcia-Suarez, suggested by Joshua Richardson and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes). [Internal changes] - Make Sys::Syslog stricture-compliant (Rafael Garcia-Suarez). [Documentation] - Document $Sys::Syslog::host (Jay Hannah). 0.05 -- 2004-04-06 [New features] - IRIX wants setlogsock("stream") (Jarkko Hietaniemi). - Allow syslog() to use numeric constants in addition to strings for facility names and priorities (Jim Schneider ). [Documentation] - Remind users to always use openlog() (Jarkko Hietaniemi). 0.04 -- 2003-08-13 [Bugfixes] - Do not use "udp" on some platforms (Slaven Rezic). - Perl RT #18180: Fixed a problem with Sys:Syslog on Solaris 8 with perl 5.8.0 (Joost van Baal). - Fixed some warnings (Jarkko Hietaniemi). - Better error messages (Jari Aalto). 0.03 -- 2002-03-23 [Bugfixes] - Fixed copious warnings from Sys::Syslog (Andreas König). [New features] - Failover to different communication modes by Nick Williams. 0.02 -- 2001-06-04 [Bugfixes] - /dev/console may not be writable in Syslog.pm (Ask Bjoern Hansen). - Fixed for accidental arguments to autoloaded constants (Gurusamy Sarathy). - Make _PATH_LOG() return "" if not available (Gurusamy Sarathy). - Forked child may not exit correctly if it failed to open /dev/console (Graham Barr). - More checking in case someone has broken their services or protocol databases (Robert Spier). - xlate() doesn't handle LOG_EMERG (Mark J. Reed). [Internal changes] - Code for constant()s regenerated by Nicholas Clark. [Tests] - Added syslog.t to check if Sys::Syslog works (Tom Hughes). 0.01 -- 2000-02-04 -- Gurusamy Sarathy [New features] - Sys::Syslog now uses XSUBs to access facilities from syslog.h so it no longer requires syslog.ph to exist. Thanks to Tom Hughes. As a consequence, Sys::Syslog moved from lib/ to ext/. perl 5.004_03 -- 1997-09-05 -- Tim Bunce [Bugfixes] - Handle missing _PATH_LOG (Ulrich Pfeifer). perl 5.004_02 -- 1997-08-07 -- Tim Bunce [New features] - UNIX domain sockets support, by Sean Robinson and Tim Bunce. perl 5.004_01 -- 1997-06-11 -- Tim Bunce [Bugfixes] - Allows FQDN (even allowing "_"). perl 5.004 -- 1997-05-15 -- Chip Salzenberg [Bugfixes] - Fixed $whoami calulation (Marc Rouleau). - Allows hyphens in hostnames (Jerome Abela). perl 5.003_01 -- 1996-06-18 -- Charles Bailey [Internal changes] - Moved call to hostname() into connect() function, and eliminated domain suffix. [Documentation] - Correct documentation for calling sequence of syslog() function. perl 5.002_01 -- 1996-03-25 -- Charles Bailey [Internal changes] - Use Sys::Hostname::hostname() only when necessary. perl 5.002 -- 1996-02-29 -- Larry Wall [Internal changes] - Use constants from Socket.pm (Andy Dougherty). - Connect to the name given by Sys::Hostname::hostname() instead of "localhost" (Andy Dougherty). [Documentation] - Added documentation, thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth. perl 5.000 -- 1994-10-17 -- Larry Wall [Distribution] - Converted from lib/syslog.pl to lib/Sys/Syslog.pm