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.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@freebsd.org>
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.\" $Id: alog.3,v 1.1.1.1 2012/02/21 23:25:53 misho Exp $
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.Dd April 22, 2002
.Dt ALOG 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm alog
.Nd logging library
.Sh LIBRARY
PDEL Library (libpdel, \-lpdel)
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In netinet/in.h
.In pdel/structs/structs.h
.In pdel/structs/type/array.h
.In pdel/sys/alog.h
.Ft int
.Fn alog_configure "int channel" "const struct alog_config *conf"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_shutdown "int channel"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_set_channel "int channel"
.Ft void
.Fn alog "int sev" "const char *fmt" "..."
.Ft void
.Fn valog "int sev" "const char *fmt" "va_list args"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_get_history "int channel" "int min_severity" "int max_entries" "time_t max_age" "const regex_t *preg" "struct alog_history *list"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_clear_history "int channel"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_facility "const char *name"
.Ft "const char *"
.Fn alog_facility_name "int facility"
.Ft int
.Fn alog_severity "const char *name"
.Ft "const char *"
.Fn alog_severity_name "int severity"
.Ft void
.Fn alog_set_debug "int channel" "int enabled"
.Ft void
.Fn alog_expand "const char *fmt" "int errnum" "char *buf" "size_t bufsize"
.Vt extern const struct structs_type alog_facility_type ;
.Vt extern const struct structs_type alog_severity_type ;
.Vt extern const struct structs_type alog_config_type ;
.Vt extern const struct structs_type alog_history_type ;
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These functions provide support for storing and retrieving log messages.
Up to
.Dv ALOG_MAX_CHANNELS
independent log channels are supported.
Log entries may be printed to standard error, stored in a searchable
circular log history file, and sent to a local or remote
.Xr syslog 3
server.
.Pp
.Fn alog_configure
configures a log channel;
.Fa channel
must be between zero and
.Dv "ALOG_MAX_CHANNELS - 1" ,
inclusive.
The channel's configuration is pointed to by
.Fa conf ,
which is a pointer to a
.Li "struct alog_config" :
.Pp
.Bd -literal -compact -offset 3n
struct alog_config {
    const char     *path;         /* logfile filename, or NULL */
    const char     *name;         /* syslog id, or NULL to disable */
    const char     *facility;     /* syslog facility, NULL=stderr */
    struct in_addr remote_server; /* remote server, or 0.0.0.0 local */
    int            min_severity;  /* min severity to actually log */
    int            histlen;       /* how much history to save */
};
.Ed
.Pp
If
.Fa path
is not
.Dv NULL
it specifies the pathname of a circular
.Xr logfile 3
used to store log entries, and
.Fa histlen
specifies the maximum number of entries to store in the file.
.Pp
If
.Fa facility
is
.Dv NULL ,
log messages will be sent to standard error.
Otherwise, if
.Fa name
is not
.Dv NULL ,
.Xr syslog 3
logging is performed:
.Fa name
is the
.Xr syslog 3
identifier,
.Fa remote_server
specifies the IP address of a remote
.Xr syslog 3
server to send log entries to (or
.Li "0.0.0.0"
for the local
.Xr syslogd 8
listening on
.Pa "/var/run/log)" ,
and
.Fa facility
specifies a
.Xr syslog 3
facility, which must be a valid facility name as returned by
.Fn alog_facility_name
(see below), e.g., "daemon".
If
.Fa name
is
.Dv NULL ,
log messages are not output at all (but will still be stored in the log file).
.Pp
.Fa min_severity
specifies a minimum
.Xr syslog 3
severity level (actually a maximum, numerically speaking) for
logged entries; less severe entries are filtered out.
.Pp
After a channel has been configured successfully via
.Fn alog_configure ,
access to that channel via
.Fn alog ,
.Fn valog ,
.Fn alog_get_history ,
and
.Fn alog_clear_history
by multiple threads is safe.
.Pp
.Fn alog_shutdown
shuts down an
.Fa alog
channel, returning it to its uninitialized, thread-unsafe state.
Logging to an uninitialized channel is permitted; the output is
written to standard error.
This allows applications to log errors before they've configured
.Nm alog .
.Pp
.Fn alog_set_channel
sets the log channel for newly logged messages.
This setting persists until another call to
.Fn alog_set_channel .
A separate "current channel" variable is kept for each thread.
.Pp
.Fn alog
and
.Fn valog
log a message.
.Fa sev
is a
.Xr syslog 3
severity level such as
.Dv LOG_ERROR .
The message is formatted using
.Fa fmt
as a
.Xr printf 3
like format string.
As a special case, "%m" is replaced with
.Fn strerror errno .
The value of
.Va errno
is not modified by these functions.
Note that when a channel is configured to log to syslog or standard error,
these functions become thread cancellation points.
.Pp
.Fn alog_get_history
retrieves previously logged entries from the circular log file
associated with channel
.Fa channel .
Only entries with severity greater than
.Fa min_severity
are returned;
only entries logged no earlier than
.Fa max_age
seconds ago are returned;
if
.Fa preg
is not
.Dv NULL ,
log entries not matching the regular expression are filtered out;
and finally, at most
.Fa max_entries
total entries are returned.
.Pp
The returned entries are described by an array of pointers to
.Li "struct alog_entry" :
.Pp
.Bd -literal -compact -offset 3n
struct alog_entry {
    time_t  when;           /* when event was logged */
    int     sev;            /* entry log severity */
    char    msg[0];         /* entry contents (including '\\0') */
};

DEFINE_STRUCTS_ARRAY(alog_history, struct alog_entry *);
.Ed
.Pp
This array is stored in
.Fa "*list" ,
which will then contain a data structure with
.Xr structs 3
type
.Fa alog_history_type
and which must eventually be freed by the caller via
.Xr structs_free 3 .
.Pp
.Fn alog_clear_history
resets a log history file to empty.
.Pp
.Fn alog_facility
takes a
.Xr syslog 3
facility name and returns its numeric value.
.Pp
.Fn alog_facility_name
returns the
.Xr syslog 3
facility name for
.Fa facility .
.Pp
.Fn alog_severity
takes a
.Xr syslog 3
severity name and returns its numeric value.
.Pp
.Fn alog_severity_name
returns the
.Xr syslog 3
severity name for
.Fa severity .
.Pp
.Fn alog_expand
expands the last occurence of "%m" (if any) in the string
.Fa fmt
into
.Fn strerror errnum
and writes the result into the buffer pointed to by
.Fa buf ,
which has size
.Fa bufsize .
.Pp
.Fn alog_set_debug
causes the next call to
.Fn alog_configure
to act as if
.Fa facility
were equal to
.Dv NULL .
.Pp
The following
.Xr structs 3
types are pre-defined:
.Pp
.Bl -hang -width 2n -offset 3n
.It Va alog_facility_type
.Pp
Same as
.Xr structs_type_string 3
but may only take values that are valid
.Xr syslog 3
facility names.
The default value is
.Dq daemon.
.It Va alog_severity_type
.Pp
Same as
.Xr structs_type_int 3
but the ASCII representation is the severity name from
.Fn alog_severity_name
instead of a number.
.It Va alog_config_type
.Pp
Describes a
.Li "struct alog_config" .
.It Va alog_history_type
.Pp
Describes a
.Li "struct alog_history" ,
which is a
.Xr structs 3
array of
.Li "struct alog_entry *"
pointers.
This type is used for accessing and freeing the log history returned by
.Fn alog_get_history .
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The above functions return -1 or
.Dv NULL
to indicate an error, setting
.Va errno
accordingly.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr libpdel 3 ,
.Xr regex 3 ,
.Xr structs 3 ,
.Xr structs_type_array 3 ,
.Xr syslog 3 ,
.Xr typed_mem 3
.Sh HISTORY
The PDEL library was developed at Packet Design, LLC.
.Dv "http://www.packetdesign.com/"
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@freebsd.org
.Sh BUGS
If multiple channels are configured to write to local syslog,
messages can get written with the wrong identifier or facility.
This is an unavoidable consequence of the implementation of
.Xr openlog 3
and
.Xr syslog 3 ,
which doesn't support threading.