--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-033 2005-01-19 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : sysklogd Version : 1.4.1 Release : 26_FC3 Summary : System logging and kernel message trapping daemons. Description : The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd) which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Updated sysklogd packages. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Jan 14 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-26 - Final fixup of '@host' name checking code: remove possible - duplicates properly * Tue Jan 04 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-25 - Fix bug 144084 - bad version of '@host' name checking code - used by mistake + memory corruption caused by free of - addrinfo node returned by getaddrinfo(). * Thu Dec 02 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-24 - Allow kernel printk's to emit an odd number of continuous '%'s . - (#141545) * Thu Dec 02 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-24 - Do not allow hostnames that resolve to the address of a local - interface to be used for forwarding, else syslogd gets into - an infinite loop sending messages to itself (as reported by - Chuck Mead <csm@xxxxxxxxxx>). * Wed Dec 01 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-23 - Allow SIGALRM to interrupt system calls, as syslogd expects. - In Fedora Core, signal(SIGALRM,...) uses SA_RESTART; one is - required to use siginterrupt() to get interruptable system calls. - (#140983) * Wed Aug 25 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-22 - Fix race condition where child sends SIGTERM before parent handles it - (#126223, #123906) * Mon Jun 28 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-21 - async logging for mail (#73306) * Sun Jun 20 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@xxxxxxxxx> - do not set bsd compat on sockets #123912 - fix empty log lines #125679 * Fri Jun 11 2004 Florian La Roche <laroche@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-18 - make the race for -HUP a little bit smaller * Wed Jun 09 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-17 - don't escape UTF-8 (#89292, #71170, #112519) * Mon May 03 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-16 - add Owl patch for crunch_list function, fixes potential crashes (#120453) * Wed Apr 07 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-15 - fix recvfrom() on 64-bit big-endian platforms (#120201) * Mon Mar 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-14 - rebuild (#117696) * Thu Feb 12 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-13 - make sysklogd pie * Fri Feb 07 2003 Tim Powers <timp@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-12 - rebuild * Wed Jan 08 2003 Tim Powers <timp@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-11 - bump release number * Fri Dec 20 2002 Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-10 - _smp_mflags * Mon Jun 17 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-9 - don't forcibly strip binaries * Wed Apr 17 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-8 - revert loglevel setting to previous behavior (#63664) * Tue Mar 12 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.4.1rh-7 - don't *require* logrotate, but conflict with older versions - fix fd leak of System.map (#52901) - switch to -x for klogd by default; we have kksymoops - provide LSB facility * Wed Aug 15 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - enable LFS for log files * Tue Aug 14 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - fix comments in config file (#51678) * Fri Aug 03 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - require a specific version of logrotate (#50794) - fix %preun for the case when it's not running (#50123) * Sun Jul 08 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - merge with 1.4.1 * Wed Feb 07 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - i18n tweaks * Tue Jan 23 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - new translation stuff * Fri Jan 19 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - adapt /etc/sysconfig/syslog for specification of arbitrary options (#23171) - fix translation string slightly (#24088) * Mon Dec 18 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - don't set owner/group on manpages on install - read /etc/sysconfig/syslog if present for some configuration paramters - fix build with new kernel headers * Tue Dec 12 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - start klogd with '-2' * Mon Dec 11 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - update to 1.4 * Fri Dec 01 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - rebuild because of broken fileutils * Fri Oct 13 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - don't log cron in two separate places (#18122) * Thu Sep 14 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - more fixes from solar@xxxxxxxxx, dan@xxxxxxxxxx; fix the security fix * Tue Sep 12 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> - never ever call syslog with a user supplied string as second argument * Mon Aug 07 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - put cron logs in /var/log/cron; rotate them * Wed Aug 02 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - start at position 12, not 30 (we *need* to be before nfslock now) * Fri Jul 28 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - um, how did %preun get tacked onto %post? - fix condrestart stuff * Fri Jul 21 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - add a umask call to the initscript * Fri Jul 14 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - move initscript back * Fri Jul 14 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@xxxxxxxxxx> - update to 1.3.33 * Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxx> - automatic rebuild * Tue Jul 11 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - fix logrotate script (#13698) * Thu Jul 06 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - prereq /etc/init.d * Thu Jun 29 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - fix init script * Tue Jun 27 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - require, not prereq new initscripts * Mon Jun 26 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - initscript munging * Wed Jun 14 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@xxxxxxxxxx> - modify logrotate configuration to use the PID file * Sun Jun 11 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - rebuild in new environment, FHS fixes * Mon Mar 27 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - handle bad directories passed to '-a' without behaving strangely (#10363) - remove compatibility chkconfig links * Thu Feb 03 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - handle compressed man pages * Wed Dec 01 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - add patch to fix segfaults in ksym-less cases from HP * Mon Nov 15 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - fix ECONNRESETs from security patch (olaf) * Sat Sep 25 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - eek. The security patch broke *two* things... * Wed Sep 22 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - make klogd actually work. * Wed Sep 08 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - rotate boot.log * Tue Sep 07 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx> - add patch to fix a possible DoS (thanks Olaf Kirch) * Mon Aug 16 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - initscript munging * Mon Aug 09 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - patch to fix non-null terminated stuff in klogd * Mon Jun 21 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - move (sys|k)logd to /sbin * Tue Apr 13 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - log boot messages to boot.log - actually put the sysklogd links in the new place * Mon Apr 05 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx> - disable mark ticks by default * Thu Apr 01 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - stop klogd/syslogd as late as possible. * Fri Mar 26 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - twiddle initscript to avoid confusion * Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx> - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 2) * Wed Feb 24 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - update to sysklogd-1.3-31 - stop klogd *before* syslogd * Tue Feb 09 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxxxxx> - escape naked percent chars in kernel messages (#1088). * Thu Dec 17 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxxxxx> - rework last-gasp address-in-module oops trace for both 2.0.x/2.1.x modules. * Mon Dec 07 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - make klogd translate SPARC register dumps and oopses. * Tue Aug 11 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxxxxx> - add %clean * Tue Aug 04 1998 Chris Adams <cadams@xxxxxx> - only log to entries that are USER_PROCESS (fix #822) * Mon Jul 27 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@xxxxxxxxxx> - remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT from %post * Wed Apr 29 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx> - patch to support Buildroot - package is now buildrooted * Wed Apr 29 1998 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@xxxxxxxxxx> - Added exit patch so that a normal daemon exit is not flagged as an error. * Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System <bugs@xxxxxxxxxx> - translations modified for de, fr, tr * Wed Oct 29 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@xxxxxxxxxx> - added (missingok) to init symlinks * Thu Oct 23 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@xxxxxxxxxx> - added status|restart support to syslog.init - added chkconfig support - various spec file cleanups * Tue Jun 17 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@xxxxxxxxxx> - built against glibc --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ b7f0b7b03a5b35888e2985278f505918 SRPMS/sysklogd-1.4.1-26_FC3.src.rpm 8afc6c58f6d55e72209c0ad6c1630e88 x86_64/sysklogd-1.4.1-26_FC3.x86_64.rpm d9b91ee722e1a88555f0a9b26e3b6eaf x86_64/debug/sysklogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-26_FC3.x86_64.rpm 0f911b4af6bf0702f7d99dd811de46fd i386/sysklogd-1.4.1-26_FC3.i386.rpm 8962c915df0924d0970b17ec1e1b3197 i386/debug/sysklogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-26_FC3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------