vlog: abstract out interface to syslog daemon
authorAnsis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:22:15 +0000 (17:22 -0700)
committerAnsis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:38:33 +0000 (12:38 -0700)
commitfe089c0d1e180c37a89167728c7cb5ac31867f23
tree6de83fb53a52a46e4d72e75f5643b918fe040e49
parent5bb08b0ef605a9b164399bd74a194ae1b921c3ea
vlog: abstract out interface to syslog daemon

This patch helps to address two issues that are present on Ubuntu
15.04 (and most likely other Linux distributions) where rsyslog daemon
is configured to relay log messages from OVS to a remote log collector
and syslog format being used is something other than the one defined in
RFC 3164.  These two issues are:

1. libc syslog() function always adds RFC 3164 prefix to syslog
   messages before sending them over /dev/log Unix domain socket.
   This does not allow us to use libc syslog() function to log in
   RFC 5424 format;  and

2. rsyslogd daemon that comes with Ubuntu 15.04 is too old and
   uses hardcoded syslog message parser when it received messages
   over /dev/log UNIX domain socket.

Solution to those two issues would be to use the newly introduced
--syslog-method=udp:127.0.0.1:514 command line argument when starting
OVS.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
NEWS
include/openvswitch/vlog.h
lib/automake.mk
lib/syslog-direct.c [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/syslog-direct.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/syslog-libc.c [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/syslog-libc.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/syslog-provider.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/vlog.c
lib/vlog.man