| Revision history for Sys-Syslog |
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| 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 |
