1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
|
Revision history for Sys-Syslog
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
|
