In a message written on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:37:14AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > I've used syslogging with FreeBSD 4.4/4.5. Have not tried it lately. > > > > /usr/bin/perl as shipped on 4.4, 4.5, and 4.7. > > The perl-5.6.1 and perl-5.8.0 ports show exactly the same behaviour on > 4.7.
I think I'm going to submit this is a perl bug in the end. Turns
out I had a misunderstanding of how the C-library syslog worked,
which carried over into perl. I thought both used inet sockets by
default (which perl is clearly documented to do), and that syslog
-s merely said only listen to things from your local ip (eg, -s
was the same as -a box.ip -a 127.0.0.1).
In reality, the libc syslog only knows how to do unix domain sockets
(see /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c, in particular connectlog).
For some reason perl has chosen the opposite behavior as the default,
to do inet sockets. For anyone running any sort of "secure" syslog
this results in failure.
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