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- General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Please refer to the file debian/changelog.
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- Version 1.3 Patch Level 3
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- General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Update to documentation including klogd.8 manpage to reflect new features.
-
- Included patch for modules-2.0.0 package to provide support for signalling
- klogd of changes in kernel module status.
-
- klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Provided support for signalling klogd to reload static and kernel module
- symbol information via SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.
-
- Implemented -p switch to cause a reload of kernel module symbol information
- whenever a protection fault is detected.
-
- Informative message is printed whenever klogd state change occurs.
-
- Added -i and -I switches to signal the currently executing klogd daemon
- to reload symbold information.
-
-
- Version 1.3 Patch Level 2
-
- General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added oops.c and oops_test.c. Oops.c implements a kernel loadable module
- which will generate a general protection fault. The oops_test.c program
- generates a test program for exercising the loadable module.
-
- syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed bug resulting in file descriptors being orphaned when syslogd was
- initialized via signal handler.
-
- klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fix to prevent errors when reading symbol tables with 64 bit addresses.
-
- Added support for debugging of protection faults occuring in kernel
- loadable modules.
-
-
- Version 1.3 Patch Level 1
-
- General. ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Cleanups in the Makefile.
-
- Patches to support compilation in the ALPHA environment. I have not
- been able to test these personally so if anyone has any feedback I
- would be interested in hearing from the Linux ALPHA community.
-
- Spelling and grammar corrections in the man pages.
-
- syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patch to fix parsing of hostnames in syslogd.c.
-
- The return value of gethostbyname is now properly checked. This should
- fix the problems with core dumps when name resolution failed.
-
- Bounds error fixed when setting the file descriptors for UNIX domain
- sockets.
-
- klogd ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Error checking and reporting enhanced. I have a couple of reports
- that klogd is experiencing errors when reading the /proc filesystem.
- Any additional information would be appreciated.
-
- The sys_syslog function has been renamed to ksyslog. This was in a
- set patches for ALPHA support so I am assuming that this is necessary
- for that environment
-
-
- Version 1.3
-
- Numerous changes, performance enhancements, code cleanups and bug fixes.
- Too many to individually summarize. Have a look at the top of each
- source file for more information.
-
- ** Default behavior of sysklogd is not to accept any message that
- is sent via syslog/udp. To allow remote reception add -r to the
- command-line arguments.
-
- ** Spaces are now accepted in the syslog configuration file. This
- should be a real crowd pleaser.
-
- syslogd now uses dynamic allocation of logging output descriptors.
- There is no longer a static limit on the number of log destinations
- that can be defined.
-
- klogd supports on-the-fly kernel address to symbol translations.
- This requires that a valid kernel symbol map be found at execution.
-
- ** The default level for console log messages was changed to 6. This
- means that kernel messages with a priority less than or equal to 5
- (KERN_NOTICE) will be logged to the console.
-
- This item has been flagged because it results in a behavior
- change which will be different if version 1.3 replaces an
- existing 1.2 binary. Linus strongly suggested that this
- behavior be changed and in the 1.3.3x kernels Linus in fact
- made it impossible to set the console log level lower than
- about 5.
-
- There were good reasons from his perspective for doing so.
- The most troublesome being that user's of packaged
- distributions were not able to generate register dumps with
- the kernel debugging keys, most notably altgr-SCRLCK.
-
- If a kernels prior to 1.3.3x are being used the klogd daemon
- invocation must be changed to something like: klogd -c 1
-
- This will turn off logging of kernel messages to the console.
- If you understand the ramifications of this the 1.3.3x kernels
- can be patched to allow the suppression of console log
- messages. It is important to be cognizant of the effects of
- these changes. None the least of which is that Linus and Alan
- will yell at you if you complain about not being able to
- generate kernel debugging information.. :-)
-
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- Version 1.2
- Fixes to both klogd and syslogd so that the package will compile without
- errors due to the vararg procedures.
-
- Modified pid files produced so that the names of the files are
- klogd.pid and syslogd.pid respectively.
-
- Fixed bug in klogd which prevented output from being directed to a file
- when the program was compiled to auto-background itself. In the
- auto-backgrounding configuration the forked process was closing all its
- file descriptors which was causing the errant behavior.
-
- Modified signal handling in klogd so that all signal are set to ignored
- before establishing specific signal handlers.
-
- Fixed bug in syslogd which was causing a delay in opening of the /dev/log
- UNIX domain socket. This should correct the race condition which was
- preventing klogd from properly logging kernel messages when the two
- daemons were started in rapid succession.
-
- Modified the closing/opening of file descriptors when syslogd was
- compiled with auto-backgrounding support. Closes the potential for
- a somewhat obscure bug caused by the /dev/log socket being opened on
- fd 0.
-
- Changed the names of the man pages from an extension of 1 to 8.
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- Version 1.1
- Extensive changes and additional functionality added to klogd. Please
- see sources and man-pages for documentation.
-
- Fixed bugs in both syslogd and klogd with respect to fragmented
- message re-assembly. Bootup messages should now be display properly.
-
- Fixed bug in syslogd which prevented proper logging of messages with
- priority classes of none and emerg.
-
- Fixed bug which caused core dump when messages were logged to users.
- Also fixed bug with messages to login type of LOGIN.
-
- Fixed problem with zombies being left when messages were logged to
- multiple users.
-
- Enhanced functionality of syslog_tst program.
-
- Added man-pages.
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- Version 1.0
-
- Initial release.
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