Revision history for Sys-Syslog 0.33 -- 2013.05.24 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#82531: Invalid usage of POSIX::_exit (Alexander Berger). [OPTIM] No longer inherit from Exporter. [OPTIM] Load Fcntl only when necessary. [DOC] Add links to other logging modules. [DOC] CPAN-RT#80398: Typo spotted by alfirth@gmail.com [DOC] Typo spotted by David Steinbrunner. [TEST] CPAN-RT#79683: Added delays in t/facilities-routing.t 0.32 -- 2012.09.14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#69040: Don't modify @_ in syslog(). [BUGFIX] Restore compatibility with Perl 5.6.0. [DOC] Perl-RT#81858: Fix some spelling errors (Peter J. Acklam). 0.31 -- 2012.08.18 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] Level 'emerg' could not be used since v0.29. [BUGFIX] Setting a message facility with syslog() was broken since v0.29 (Noel Butler). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#69992: Make setlogsock() only use the requested mechanism, restoring way it worked in v0.27 and before (Niko Tyni). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#69986: setlogsock() doesn't return undef on failure (Niko Tyni). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#69997: Use the default UDP socket timeout on GNU/kFreeBSD as well, and lower it to a more sensible value (Niko Tyni). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#75827: syslog() logging everything regardless of log mask when using using numeric LOG_* macros (Bryan Thale). [TESTS] Added t/facilities-routing.t [DOC] Don't highlight "the Rules of Sys::Syslog" from the Description. [DIST] Add meta-information in Makefile.PL 0.30 -- 2012.08.15 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#69310: Avoid a POSIX::strftime issue on Windows (Michael Ludwig). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#77577: Build on Haiku-OS (Tony Cook). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#77578: Silence a compilation warning (Tony Cook). [BUGFIX] 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 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#55215: Sys::Syslog might call exit which triggers DESTROY (Alexander Berger). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#55151: Allow temporary facility with native mechanism (Tim Jenkins). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#50928: Convert Win32 files to Unix EOLs (Steve Hay). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#50534: Unwanted space at the end of syslog message (Eugene V. Lyubimkin). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#49877: Options not reset after closelog() (Herbert Brezina). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#48386: Add Win32::EventLog as a prerequisite (kmx and Laurent Dami). [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#50534: Added options noeol and nonul. [DIST] Set INSTALLDIRS to "site" when installed on Perl 5.11+ 0.28 -- 2011.04.16 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) #PerlQA2011 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#56084: Reset connection tracking vars (Vladimir Marek). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#56826: Avoid memory corruption when closelog() is called twice (Andreas Jaekel). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#64287: Make strftime() Windows-compatible (Dave Stafford). [FEATURE] New API for setlogsock(), in order to allow the setting of new options. Thanks to Jake Scott for the idea. [CODE] Modify can_load() so it can print the warnings if desired. [CODE] CPAN-RT#44410: Provide fallback macros in Syslog.xs in order to compile on Novell Netware. [TESTS] In blead, the distribution was moved from ext/Sys/Syslog to ext/Sys-Syslog. t/constants.t had to be fixed (Vincent Pit). [TESTS] CPAN-RT#53317: In core, Sys-Syslog was moved to cpan/, thus making t/constants.t unable to find macros.all (David Mitchell). [TESTS] CPAN-RT#64716: Skip t/data-validation.t if the available version of POE::Component::Server::Syslog is too old. [DIST] Bleadperl no longer require an empty MAN3PODS (Nicholas Clark). [DIST] Removed unneeded modules in Makefile.PL (Nicholas Clark). [DOC] Recreated Sys::Syslog history from the unified git repository. [DOC] Added a section to list the matching Perl and Sys::Syslog version. [DOC] CPAN-RT#49859: Removed a dead link (Leon Brocard). 0.27 -- 2008.09.21 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] 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) [BUGFIX] Make Sys::Syslog works with Perl 5.10.0 (because of ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs). [CODE] setlogsock() is now a little more strict about its arguments. 0.25 -- 2008.05.17 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34691: Fixed an incorrect call to sysopen() which prevented Sys::Syslog from working on some Solaris systems. Thanks to Paul Townsend. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#34753: Fixed a slowness introduced in v0.19 (which was to work around OSX syslog own slowness). Thanks to Alex Efros. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35952: Fixed a bug with the "nofatal" option. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#35189: Fixed a bug in xlate(). [BUGFIX] Fixed build on Win32, thanks to Adam Kennedy. [FEATURE] setlogsock() now interprets the second argument as the hostname for network mechanisms. [DIST] Add AUTHOR to WriteMakefile() in order to fix the META.yml generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker. [TESTS] Improved t/pod.t with Pod::Checker. 0.24 -- 2007.12.31 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] 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) [BUGFIX] Fixed a too liberal test in the "pipe" mechanism, thanks to Jan Dubois. [DIST] fallback/syslog.h was missing from MANIFEST (thanks to CPAN Tester Matthew Musgrove). [TESTS] Better handling of Perl 5.005, thanks to CPAN Tester Slaven Rezic. 0.22 -- 2007.11.08 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#29875: Added workaround SpamAssassin overzealous logging features. [FEATURE] Added support for PERROR option. [FEATURE] Support for SYSLOG on z/OS, thanks to Chun Bing Ge. [CODE] Prevent $@ from being visible outside the module, in trying to address the problem reported in CPAN-RT#29875. [DOC] CPAN-RT#29451: Add Copyright notice. Thanks to Allison Randal for her advice. [DOC] New speaking about Win32 API instead of Win32 operating system. 0.21 -- 2007.09.14 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] setlogsock(eventlog) returned true even when it shouldn't have. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#24431: Added workaround for Mac OS X syslogd. [FEATURE] Added "pipe" mechanism in order to support HP-UX named pipe. Thanks to H.Merijn Brand and PROCURA. [CODE] Sys::Syslog works again on Perl 5.005, thanks to Nicholas Clark. 0.20 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [DOC] Added README.win32 which was missing in MANIFEST. 0.19 -- 2007.09.05 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20635: Fix tests to avoid problems related to the "stream" mechanism which occured on Debian and Cygwin. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20780: Facility could not be temporarily changed. Also fixes the syslog() before openlog() bug. [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21333: Makefile.PL now creates a typemap for Perl 5.6.1 [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21516: disconnect_log() now correctly calls closelog_xs(). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#21866: Silence warnings in openlog(). [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#25488: Silence warnings in disconnect_log(). via syslog(). [BUGFIX] Rewrote the constants generation code in order to provide fallback value for non-standard macros. [BUGFIX] Mark Blackman and Edmund von der Burg identified and fixed the random failures appearing on OSX, caused by a UDP timeout. [FEATURE] Added Win32 event log support thanks to Yves Orton. [FEATURE] Added new macros from modern BSD and IRIX. [FEATURE] Each non-standard macro now fall backs to a standard macro. [CODE] 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. [TESTS] Merged change blead@29176: suppress taint mode from t/constants.t [TESTS] Added regression tests for CPAN-RT#21866 and #25488. [EG] Added example script eg/syslog.pl [DOC] CPAN-RT#26097: man pages were not installed. [DOC] Added the Sys::Syslog Rules. 0.18 -- 2006.08.28 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] 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. [DOC] Added a note discouraging the use of setlogsock(). 0.17 -- 2006.07.23 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#20622, #20164: Fixed path handling in connect_unix(). [CODE] Renamed some variables ($that is not a valid name), and removed some dead code. [CODE] Actually added the macros from Mac OS X that were announced in the 0.14 version. [DOC] CPAN-RT#20545: Rewrote the documentation about setlogsock(). 0.16 -- 2006.06.20 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#20557: Save errno before trying to connect. [FEATURE] Perl-RT#35406: Applied the patch proposed by Keisuke Hirata for a more lax handling of "stream" or "unix" path. [FEATURE] Now try the "native" mechanism first. [TESTS] Silence warnings generated by t/syslog.t in Perl 5.8.8 and later. [DOC] Added documentation about the "native" mechanism. [DOC] Now indicates whether tickets are from CPAN or Perl RT. 0.15 -- 2006.06.10 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [FEATURE] CPAN-RT#17316: Added a "nofatal" option to openlog(). [FEATURE] Sys::Syslog warnings can now be controlled by the warnings category of the same name. [FEATURE] Added support for using the native C syslog(3) functions. [CODE] Removed most "our" variables. [CODE] Improved readability by removing cargo-cult brackets and parentheses. 0.14 -- 2006.05.25 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] CPAN-RT#19259, #17518: Now allowing all levels and facilities. [CODE] Removed useless "&". [CODE] Improved readability by adding empty lines and reworking the code here and there. [CODE] Added new macros from Mac OS X. [TESTS] Added more tests in order to increase coverage. [DOC] CPAN-RT#19085: Corrected errors in the documentation for setlogmask(). [DOC] Added several links to online manual pages, RFCs and articles. [DOC] Corrected minor things in Changes. 0.13 -- 2006.01.11 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [CODE] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages, then optimized it. [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service the lookup attempt tried to use. [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly use INADDR_LOOPBACK. [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it. [CODE] 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. [TESTS] CPAN-RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped. 0.12 -- 2006.01.07 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [DOC] Added a link to an article about Sys::Syslog. [TESTS] Merged some modifications from bleadperl. [TESTS] Removed optional dependency on Test::Exception. [TESTS] Improved t/constant.t [TESTS] 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) [BUGFIX] setlogmask() now behaves like its C counterpart. [FEATURE] Can now export and use the macros. [FEATURE] Support for three Exporter tags. [FEATURE] XSLoader is now optional. [CODE] No longer "use"s Sys::Hostname as it was "require"d where needed. [CODE] CPAN-RT#16604: Use local timestamp. [DIST] Merged blead@26343: Fix realclean target. [DOC] 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) [DOC] Improved documentation. [TESTS] Added -T to t/syslog.t [TESTS] Added t/constants.t to check the macros. [TESTS] Added t/distchk.t, t/podspell.t, t/podcover.t, t/portfs.t 0.09 -- 2005.12.06 -- Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (SAPER) [BUGFIX] Escape percent signs in error message when interpolating %m (Ronald J. Kimball). [CODE] Now setlogsock() really croak(), as documented. [DIST] CPANized from blead@26281. [DIST] Modified Makefile.PL so that ExtUtils::Constant is conditionally used, with a fallback in the case it's not available. [DIST] Bumped version to 0.09 [DOC] Added support and license information. [TESTS] Rewrote and ported t/syslog.t to Test::More 0.08 -- 2005.12.03 [FEATURES] syslog() can now accept a message without printf() escapes and arguments (Gisle Aas ). [DOC] Document that openlog() might die (Rafael Garcia-Suarez). 0.07 -- 2005.06.27 [CODE] Use XSLoader instead of DynaLoader (Alexey Tourbin). [DOC] Shows the correct way to use syslog() (Dave Mitchell). 0.06 -- 2004.12.14 [FEATURE] Allow escaping %m as %%m in Sys::Syslog format strings (Rafael Garcia-Suarez, suggested by Joshua Richardson and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes). [CODE] Make Sys::Syslog stricture-compliant (Rafael Garcia-Suarez). [DOC] Document $Sys::Syslog::host (Jay Hannah). 0.05 -- 2004.04.06 [FEATURE] IRIX wants setlogsock("stream") (Jarkko Hietaniemi). [FEATURE] Allow syslog() to use numeric constants in addition to strings for facility names and priorities (Jim Schneider ). [DOC] Remind users to always use openlog() (Jarkko Hietaniemi). 0.04 -- 2003.08.13 [BUGFIX] Do not use "udp" on some platforms (Slaven Rezic). [BUGFIX] Perl-RT#18180: Fixed a problem with Sys:Syslog on Solaris 8 with perl 5.8.0 (Joost van Baal). [BUGFIX] Fixed some warnings (Jarkko Hietaniemi). [BUGFIX] Better error messages (Jari Aalto). 0.03 -- 2002.03.23 [BUGFIX] Fixed copious warnings from Sys::Syslog (Andreas König). [FEATURE] Failover to different communication modes by Nick Williams. 0.02 -- 2001.06.04 [BUGFIX] /dev/console may not be writable in Syslog.pm (Ask Bjoern Hansen). [BUGFIX] Fixed for accidental arguments to autoloaded constants (Gurusamy Sarathy). [BUGFIX] Make _PATH_LOG() return "" if not available (Gurusamy Sarathy). [BUGFIX] Forked child may not exit correctly if it failed to open /dev/console (Graham Barr). [BUGFIX] More checking in case someone has broken their services or protocol databases (Robert Spier). [BUGFIX] xlate() doesn't handle LOG_EMERG (Mark J. Reed). [CODE] 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 [FEATURE] 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 [BUGFIX] Handle missing _PATH_LOG (Ulrich Pfeifer). perl 5.004_02 -- 1997.08.07 -- Tim Bunce [FEATURE] UNIX domain sockets support, by Sean Robinson and Tim Bunce. perl 5.004_01 -- 1997.06.11 -- Tim Bunce [BUGFIX] Allows FQDN (even allowing "_"). perl 5.004 -- 1997.05.15 -- Chip Salzenberg [BUGFIX] Fixed $whoami calulation (Marc Rouleau). [BUGFIX] Allows hyphens in hostnames (Jerome Abela). perl 5.003_01 -- 1996.06.18 -- Charles Bailey [CODE] Moved call to hostname() into connect() function, and eliminated domain suffix. [DOC] Correct documentation for calling sequence of syslog() function. perl 5.002_01 -- 1996.03.25 -- Charles Bailey [CODE] Use Sys::Hostname::hostname() only when necessary. perl 5.002 -- 1996.02.29 -- Larry Wall [CODE] Use constants from Socket.pm (Andy Dougherty). [CODE] Connect to the name given by Sys::Hostname::hostname() instead of "localhost" (Andy Dougherty). [DOC] Added documentation, thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth. perl 5.000 -- 1994.10.17 -- Larry Wall [DIST] Converted from lib/syslog.pl to lib/Sys/Syslog.pm