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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)syslogd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd April 13, 2005 32.Dt SYSLOGD 8 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm syslogd 36.Nd log systems messages 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl 46Acdknosuv 40.Op Fl a Ar allowed_peer 41.Op Fl b Ar bind_address 42.Op Fl f Ar config_file 43.Op Fl l Oo Ar mode : Oc Ns Ar path 44.Op Fl m Ar mark_interval 45.Op Fl P Ar pid_file 46.Op Fl p Ar log_socket 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50utility reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, other 51machines and/or users as specified by its configuration file. 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl 4 56Force 57.Nm 58to use IPv4 addresses only. 59.It Fl 6 60Force 61.Nm 62to use IPv6 addresses only. 63.It Fl A 64Ordinarily, 65.Nm 66tries to send the message to only one address 67even if the host has more than one A or AAAA record. 68If this option is specified, 69.Nm 70tries to send the message to all addresses. 71.It Fl a Ar allowed_peer 72Allow 73.Ar allowed_peer 74to log to this 75.Nm 76using UDP datagrams. 77Multiple 78.Fl a 79options may be specified. 80.Pp 81.Ar Allowed_peer 82can be any of the following: 83.Bl -tag -width "ipaddr/masklen[:service]XX" 84.It Xo 85.Sm off 86.Ar ipaddr 87.No / Ar masklen 88.Op : Ar service 89.Sm on 90.Xc 91Accept datagrams from 92.Ar ipaddr 93(in the usual dotted quad notation) with 94.Ar masklen 95bits being taken into account when doing the address comparison. 96.Ar ipaddr 97can be also IPv6 address by enclosing the address with 98.Ql \&[ 99and 100.Ql \&] . 101If specified, 102.Ar service 103is the name or number of an UDP service (see 104.Xr services 5 ) 105the source packet must belong to. 106A 107.Ar service 108of 109.Ql \&* 110allows packets being sent from any UDP port. 111The default 112.Ar service 113is 114.Ql syslog . 115If 116.Ar ipaddr 117is IPv4 address, a missing 118.Ar masklen 119will be substituted by the historic class A or class B netmasks if 120.Ar ipaddr 121belongs into the address range of class A or B, respectively, or 122by 24 otherwise. 123If 124.Ar ipaddr 125is IPv6 address, a missing 126.Ar masklen 127will be substituted by 128. 128.It Xo 129.Sm off 130.Ar domainname Op : Ar service 131.Sm on 132.Xc 133Accept datagrams where the reverse address lookup yields 134.Ar domainname 135for the sender address. 136The meaning of 137.Ar service 138is as explained above. 139.It Xo 140.Sm off 141.No * Ar domainname Op : Ar service 142.Sm on 143.Xc 144Same as before, except that any source host whose name 145.Em ends 146in 147.Ar domainname 148will get permission. 149.El 150.Pp 151The 152.Fl a 153options are ignored if the 154.Fl s 155option is also specified. 156.It Fl b Ar bind_address 157Specify one specific IP address or hostname to bind to. 158If a hostname is specified, 159the IPv4 or IPv6 address which corresponds to it is used. 160.It Fl c 161Disable the compression of repeated instances of the same line 162into a single line of the form 163.Dq Li "last message repeated N times" 164when the output is a pipe to another program. 165If specified twice, disable this compression in all cases. 166.It Fl d 167Put 168.Nm 169into debugging mode. 170This is probably only of use to developers working on 171.Nm . 172.It Fl f 173Specify the pathname of an alternate configuration file; 174the default is 175.Pa /etc/syslog.conf . 176.It Fl k 177Disable the translation of 178messages received with facility 179.Dq kern 180to facility 181.Dq user . 182Usually the 183.Dq kern 184facility is reserved for messages read directly from 185.Pa /dev/klog . 186.It Fl m 187Select the number of minutes between 188.Dq mark 189messages; the default is 20 minutes. 190.It Fl n 191Disable dns query for every request. 192.It Fl o 193Prefix kernel messages with the full kernel boot file as determined by 194.Xr getbootfile 3 . 195Without this, the kernel message prefix is always 196.Dq Li kernel: . 197.It Fl p 198Specify the pathname of an alternate log socket to be used instead; 199the default is 200.Pa /var/run/log . 201.It Fl P 202Specify an alternative file in which to store the process ID. 203The default is 204.Pa /var/run/syslog.pid . 205.It Fl S 206Specify the pathname of an alternate log socket for privileged 207applications to be used instead; the default is 208.Pa /var/run/logpriv . 209.It Fl l 210Specify a location where 211.Nm 212should place an additional log socket. 213The primary use for this is to place additional log sockets in 214.Pa /var/run/log 215of various chroot filespaces. 216File permissions for socket can be specified in octal representation 217before socket name, delimited with a colon. 218Path to socket location must be absolute. 219.It Fl s 220Operate in secure mode. 221Do not log messages from remote machines. 222If 223specified twice, no network socket will be opened at all, which also 224disables logging to remote machines. 225.It Fl u 226Unique priority logging. 227Only log messages at the specified priority. 228Without this option, messages at the stated priority or higher are logged. 229This option changes the default comparison from 230.Dq => 231to 232.Dq = . 233.It Fl v 234Verbose logging. 235If specified once, the numeric facility and priority are 236logged with each locally-written message. 237If specified more than once, 238the names of the facility and priority are logged with each locally-written 239message. 240.El 241.Pp 242The 243.Nm 244utility reads its configuration file when it starts up and whenever it 245receives a hangup signal. 246For information on the format of the configuration file, 247see 248.Xr syslog.conf 5 . 249.Pp 250The 251.Nm 252utility reads messages from the 253.Ux 254domain sockets 255.Pa /var/run/log 256and 257.Pa /var/run/logpriv , 258from an Internet domain socket specified in 259.Pa /etc/services , 260and from the special device 261.Pa /dev/klog 262(to read kernel messages). 263.Pp 264The 265.Nm 266utility creates its process ID file, 267by default 268.Pa /var/run/syslog.pid , 269and stores its process 270ID there. 271This can be used to kill or reconfigure 272.Nm . 273.Pp 274The message sent to 275.Nm 276should consist of a single line. 277The message can contain a priority code, which should be a preceding 278decimal number in angle braces, for example, 279.Sq Aq 5 . 280This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the 281include file 282.In sys/syslog.h . 283.Pp 284For security reasons, 285.Nm 286will not append to log files that do not exist; 287therefore, they must be created manually before running 288.Nm . 289.Sh FILES 290.Bl -tag -width /var/run/syslog.pid -compact 291.It Pa /etc/syslog.conf 292configuration file 293.It Pa /var/run/syslog.pid 294default process ID file 295.It Pa /var/run/log 296name of the 297.Ux 298domain datagram log socket 299.It Pa /var/run/logpriv 300.Ux 301socket for privileged applications 302.It Pa /dev/klog 303kernel log device 304.El 305.Sh SEE ALSO 306.Xr logger 1 , 307.Xr syslog 3 , 308.Xr services 5 , 309.Xr syslog.conf 5 , 310.Xr newsyslog 8 311.Sh HISTORY 312The 313.Nm 314utility appeared in 315.Bx 4.3 . 316.Pp 317The 318.Fl a , 319.Fl s , 320.Fl u , 321and 322.Fl v 323options are 324.Fx 2.2 325extensions. 326.Sh BUGS 327The ability to log messages received in UDP packets is equivalent to 328an unauthenticated remote disk-filling service, and should probably be 329disabled by default. 330Some sort of 331.No inter- Ns Nm syslogd 332authentication mechanism ought to be worked out. 333To prevent the worst 334abuse, use of the 335.Fl a 336option is therefore highly recommended. 337.Pp 338The 339.Fl a 340matching algorithm does not pretend to be very efficient; use of numeric 341IP addresses is faster than domain name comparison. 342Since the allowed 343peer list is being walked linearly, peer groups where frequent messages 344are being anticipated from should be put early into the 345.Fl a 346list. 347.Pp 348The log socket was moved from 349.Pa /dev 350to ease the use of a read-only root file system. 351This may confuse 352some old binaries so that a symbolic link might be used for a 353transitional period. 354