Revision history for Sys-Syslog
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 detailled 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 controled 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 conditionaly
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