BSD Ports

sysutils/socklog 2.1.0_2 DragonFly

Small and secure replacement for syslogd

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net, sysutils
Package size
46.4 KiB, 177.0 KiB installed

Description

socklog in cooperation with the runit package is a small and secure replacement for syslogd. There are three main features, syslogd provides:

  • receiving syslog messages from an Unix domain socket (/dev/log) or UDP socket (0.0.0.0:514) and writing them to various files on disk depending on facility and priority.
  • writing received syslog messages to an UDP socket (a.b.c.d:514)

socklog provides these features with the help of runit's runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd, provides a different network logging concept, and additionally does log event notification.

svlogd has a built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs or similar to rotate the logs. Log partitions can be calculated properly.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlysysutils/socklog2.1.0_2
FreeBSDsysutils/socklog2.1.0_2
OpenBSDsysutils/socklog2.1.2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install socklog

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/socklog && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The socklog port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing