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. Removed kernel.patch since it is no longer required

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. Changed SOCK_STREAM to SOCK_DGRAM in syslog.c

 . klogd will only change the console log level if `-c' is supplied

 . syslogd.c by Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

   Um, if the directory is invalid, the bind() call in
   create_unix_socket fails. Without the return -1, we return the
   invalid fd that we just closed.  When syslogd then starts
   listening, select goes into a hard loop getting EBADF, IIRC.

 . klogd.c by Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>

   I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it
   encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text
   parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver
   from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the product
   code of my laptop's 3Com card. It could be argued that the kernel
   should never output zero bytes in the logging info, but obviously
   that will happen from time to time.

   I fear this bug might be considered a security issue as well, if
   the kernel can be coerced to output a zero byte somehow, all kernel
   logging will stop.

   Wolfgang Oertl <Wolfgang.Oertl@uibk.ac.at> had a similar bugfix
   idea

 . klogd.c by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

   Additionally, the patch prevents LogLine from being invoked with a
   negative counter as an argument.
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Joey Schulze
2001-03-11 19:35:52 +00:00
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@@ -148,11 +148,16 @@ the syslogd daemon. This prevents 'nuisance' messages such as line
printer out of paper or disk change detected from cluttering the
console.
By default the
When
.B \-c
is given on the commandline the
.B klogd
daemon executes a system call to inhibit all
kernel messages (except for panics) from being displayed on the
console. The \fB\-c\fR switch can be used to alter this behavior. The
daemon will execute a system call to inhibit all kernel messages from
being displayed on the console. Former versions always issued this
system call and defaulted to all kernel messages except for panics.
This is handled differently nowardays so
.B klogd
doesn't need to set this value anymore. The
argument given to the \fB\-c\fR switch specifies the priority level of
messages which will be directed to the console. Note that messages of
a priority value LOWER than the indicated number will be directed to