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socklog(8)		     System Manager's Manual		      socklog(8)

NAME
     socklog - small and secure syslogd replacement for use with runit

SYNOPSIS
     socklog [-rRU] [unix] [path]
     socklog [-rR] inet [ip] [port]
     socklog [-rR] ucspi [args]

DESCRIPTION
     socklog  is run under runit's runsv(8), writing syslog messages it receives
     from unix domain socket path or an inet udp socket ip:port through  a  pipe
     provided by runsv(8) to a svlogd(8) process.

     socklog  can  be  run  as	an ucspi application to listen to an unix domain
     stream socket and for more flexible distributed logging.

     If the environment variables $UID and/or $GID are	present,  socklog  drops
     permissions  to those ids after creating and binding the socket (not in uc-
     spi mode).

     socklog converts syslog facility and priority information to names  (facil-
     ity.priority:)  as  found	in  /usr/include/syslog.h  at  compile	time  if
     present.

     On solaris socklog also accepts sun_stream as first  argument.  Please  see
     the web page for details.

UNIX SOCKET
     socklog [ unix ] [ path ]

     Starting  socklog	with  the  1st argument unix, socklog will listen to the
     unix domain socket path.  If path is omitted, the default /dev/log is used.

     The 1st argument may be omitted, default is unix.

INET SOCKET
     socklog inet [ ip ] [ port ]

     Starting socklog with the 1st argument inet, socklog  will  listen  to  the
     inet udp socket ip:port.

     If ip starts with 0, socklog will bind to all local interfaces.

     If port is less or equal 1024, socklog must be run by root.

     port may be omitted, default is 514.  ip may be omitted, default is 0.

     socklog prepends a.b.c.d: to each syslog message it receives, where a.b.c.d
     is the ip address of the connecting system.

UCSPI MODE
     socklog ucspi [ args ]

     Starting  socklog with the 1st argument ucspi, socklog will run as an ucspi
     application. Normally socklog will only be started in ucspi mode by an  uc-
     spi server tool, such as tcpsvd(8), tcpserver(1) or unixserver.

     For each arg, socklog will prepend $arg: to each syslog message, if the en-
     vironment variable $arg is present (maximum is 8).

OPTIONS
     -r     raw.   Write  the raw syslog messages (no conversion of facility and
	    priority) to the pipe, additionally to the log messages with  syslog
	    facility and priority converted to names.

     -R     raw only.  Same as -r above, but write the raw syslog messages only.

     -U     respect  umask.   Don't set umask to 0 before creating a unix domain
	    socket, but respect the current setting of	umask(2).   This  option
	    only takes effect in unix mode.

SEE ALSO
     sv(8),  runsvdir(8),  runsv(8),  svlogd(8),  tryto(1),  uncat(1),	socklog-
     check(8), tcpsvd(8), nc(1)

      http://smarden.org/socklog/
      http://smarden.org/runit/

AUTHOR
     Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>

								      socklog(8)

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