What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be.
In addition you could make it look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for packages.
Hmmm... glancing through syslogd.c, it doesn't look
like it would be hard to alter it to support multiple
-f options. In that case, just add the following
to rc.conf (or /etc/rc.d/syslogd, I suppose):
if [ -e /etc/syslog.local ] then
syslogd_args="$syslogd_args -f /etc/syslog.local"
fifor f in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.d/*
do
syslogd_args="$syslogd_args -f $f"
done
This largely removes the need for include handling. It doesn't allow you to override or remove existing entries, though. One approach that preserves backward compatibility would be to allow optional line numbers, with duplicates overriding earlier entries. That requires some non-trivial code changes to support, but it shouldn't be too hard.
There's also considerable precedent for using cpp or m4 to preprocess configuration files. Either supports file inclusions, conditionals, etc. It's generally not too hard to support this: it usually just involves replacing fopen() with popen().
Tim Kientzle
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