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1.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Kungliga Tekniska H�gskolan
2.\" $Id: krb5_openlog.3,v 1.7 2002/08/28 15:30:55 joda Exp $
3.Dd August 6, 1997
4.Dt KRB5_OPENLOG 3
5.Os HEIMDAL
6.Sh NAME
7.Nm krb5_initlog ,
8.Nm krb5_openlog ,
9.Nm krb5_closelog ,
10.Nm krb5_addlog_dest ,
11.Nm krb5_addlog_func ,
12.Nm krb5_log ,
13.Nm krb5_vlog ,
14.Nm krb5_log_msg ,
15.Nm krb5_vlog_msg
16.Nd Heimdal logging functions
17.Sh LIBRARY
18Kerberos 5 Library (libkrb5, -lkrb5)
19.Sh SYNOPSIS
20.Fd #include <krb5.h>
21.Ft "typedef void"
22.Fn "\*(lp*krb5_log_log_func_t\*(rp" "const char *time" "const char *message" "void *data"
23.Ft "typedef void"
24.Fn "\*(lp*krb5_log_close_func_t\*(rp" "void *data"
25.Ft krb5_error_code
26.Fn krb5_addlog_dest "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "const char *destination"
27.Ft krb5_error_code
28.Fn krb5_addlog_func "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "int min" "int max" "krb5_log_log_func_t log" "krb5_log_close_func_t close" "void *data"
29.Ft krb5_error_code
30.Fn krb5_closelog "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility"
31.Ft krb5_error_code
32.Fn krb5_initlog "krb5_context context" "const char *program" "krb5_log_facility **facility"
33.Ft krb5_error_code
34.Fn krb5_log "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "int level" "const char *format" "..."
35.Ft krb5_error_code
36.Fn krb5_log_msg "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "char **reply" "int level" "const char *format" "..."
37.Ft krb5_error_code
38.Fn krb5_openlog "krb5_context context" "const char *program" "krb5_log_facility **facility"
39.Ft krb5_error_code
40.Fn krb5_vlog "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "int level" "const char *format" "va_list arglist"
41.Ft krb5_error_code
42.Fn krb5_vlog_msg "krb5_context context" "krb5_log_facility *facility" "char **reply" "int level" "const char *format" "va_list arglist"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44These functions logs messages to one or more destinations.
45.Pp
46The
47.Fn krb5_openlog
48function creates a logging
49.Fa facility ,
50that is used to log messages. A facility consists of one or more
51destinations (which can be files or syslog or some other device). The
52.Fa program
53parameter should be the generic name of the program that is doing the
54logging. This name is used to lookup which destinations to use. This
55information is contained in the
56.Li logging
57section of the
58.Pa krb5.conf
59configuration file.  If no entry is found for
60.Fa program ,
61the entry for
62.Li default
63is used, or if that is missing too,
64.Li SYSLOG
65will be used as destination.
66.Pp
67To close a logging facility, use the
68.Fn krb5_closelog
69function.
70.Pp
71To log a message to a facility use one of the functions
72.Fn krb5_log ,
73.Fn krb5_log_msg ,
74.Fn krb5_vlog ,
75or
76.Fn krb5_vlog_msg .
77The functions ending in
78.Li _msg
79return in
80.Fa reply
81a pointer to the message that just got logged. This string is allocated,
82and should be freed with
83.Fn free .
84The
85.Fa format
86is a standard
87.Fn printf
88style format string (but see the BUGS section).
89.Pp
90If you want better control of where things gets logged, you can instead of using
91.Fn krb5_openlog
92call
93.Fn krb5_initlog ,
94which just initializes a facility, but doesn't define any actual logging
95destinations. You can then add destinations with the
96.Fn krb5_addlog_dest
97and
98.Fn krb5_addlog_func
99functions.  The first of these takes a string specifying a logging
100destination, and adds this to the facility. If you want to do some
101non-standard logging you can use the
102.Fn krb5_addlog_func
103function, which takes a function to use when logging.
104The
105.Fa log
106function is called for each message with
107.Fa time
108being a string specifying the current time, and
109.Fa message
110the message to log.
111.Fa close
112is called when the facility is closed. You can pass application specific data in the
113.Fa data
114parameter. The
115.Fa min
116and
117.Fa max
118parameter are the same as in a destination (defined below). To specify a
119max of infinity, pass -1.
120.Pp
121.Fn krb5_openlog
122calls
123.Fn krb5_initlog
124and then calls
125.Fn krb5_addlog_dest
126for each destination found.
127.Ss Destinations
128The defined destinations (as specified in
129.Pa krb5.conf )
130follows:
131.Bl -tag -width "xxx" -offset indent
132.It Li STDERR
133This logs to the program's stderr.
134.It Li FILE: Ns Pa /file
135.It Li FILE= Ns Pa /file
136Log to the specified file. The form using a colon appends to the file, the
137form with an equal truncates the file. The truncating form keeps the file
138open, while the appending form closes it after each log message (which
139makes it possible to rotate logs). The truncating form is mainly for
140compatibility with the MIT libkrb5.
141.It Li DEVICE= Ns Pa /device
142This logs to the specified device, at present this is the same as
143.Li FILE:/device .
144.It Li CONSOLE
145Log to the console, this is the same as
146.Li DEVICE=/dev/console .
147.It Li SYSLOG Ns Op :priority Ns Op :facility
148Send messages to the syslog system, using priority, and facility. To
149get the name for one of these, you take the name of the macro passed
150to
151.Xr syslog 3 ,
152and remove the leading
153.Li LOG_
154.No ( Li LOG_NOTICE
155becomes
156.Li NOTICE ) .
157The default values (as well as the values used for unrecognised
158values), are
159.Li ERR ,
160and
161.Li AUTH ,
162respectively.  See
163.Xr syslog 3
164for a list of priorities and facilities.
165.El
166.Pp
167Each destination may optionally be prepended with a range of logging
168levels, specified as
169.Li min-max/ .
170If the
171.Fa level
172parameter to
173.Fn krb5_log
174is within this range (inclusive) the message gets logged to this
175destination, otherwise not. Either of the min and max valued may be
176omitted, in this case min is assumed to be zero, and max is assumed to be
177infinity.  If you don't include a dash, both min and max gets set to the
178specified value. If no range is specified, all messages gets logged.
179.Sh EXAMPLE
180.Bd -literal -offset indent
181[logging]
182	kdc = 0/FILE:/var/log/kdc.log
183	kdc = 1-/SYSLOG:INFO:USER
184	default = STDERR
185.Ed
186.Pp
187This will log all messages from the
188.Nm kdc
189program with level 0 to
190.Pa /var/log/kdc.log ,
191other messages will be logged to syslog with priority
192.Li LOG_INFO ,
193and facility
194.Li LOG_USER .
195All other programs will log all messages to their stderr.
196.Sh BUGS
197These functions use
198.Fn asprintf
199to format the message. If your operating system does not have a working
200.Fn asprintf ,
201a replacement will be used. At present this replacement does not handle
202some correct conversion specifications (like floating point numbers). Until
203this is fixed, the use of these conversions should be avoided.
204.Pp
205If logging is done to the syslog facility, these functions might not be
206thread-safe, depending on the implementation of
207.Fn openlog ,
208and
209.Fn syslog .
210.Sh SEE ALSO
211.Xr syslog 3 ,
212.Xr krb5.conf 5
213