[dvblast-devel] dvblast loggin to syslog

[Вячеслав Адаманов]

May be  set ident name based on Input param -a or -A or -D ?

2011/8/25 Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf at unixsol.org>

> Around 08/25/2011 04:07 PM, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski scribbled:
> > Around 08/25/2011 03:44 PM, Вячеслав Адаманов scribbled:
> >> There are a couple of proposals for logging events in dvblast.
> >> When you run multiple copies dvblast on different DVB cards to determine
> >> which copies can only PID of the process, it is not convenient if using
> >> remote syslog.
> >
> > It seems from reading the code that syslog ident is set from the
> executable name.
> > (see dvblast.c around line 812), so if you run dvblast with different
> names (you
> > may use symlinks) you'll have messages from each dvblast easily
> recognizable.
>
> Or you may use something like the attached that allows to set syslog ident
> by
> using --logger-ident or -g command line parameters.
>
> --
> Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
> http://georgi.unixsol.org/
>
> diff --git a/dvblast.c b/dvblast.c
> index 7cd6c7e..bca3b1d 100644
> --- a/dvblast.c
> +++ b/dvblast.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ print_type_t i_print_type = -1;
>  volatile sig_atomic_t b_hup_received = 0;
>  int i_verbose = DEFAULT_VERBOSITY;
>  int i_syslog = 0;
> +char *psz_syslog_ident = NULL;
>
>  bool b_enable_emm = false;
>  bool b_enable_ecm = false;
> @@ -461,6 +462,7 @@ void usage()
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -j --system-charset   character set used for printing
> messages (default UTF-8)" );
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -J --dvb-charset      character set used in output
> DVB tables (default ISO_8859-1)" );
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -l --logger           use syslog for logging messages
> instead of stderr" );
> +    msg_Raw( NULL, "  -g --logger-ident     program name that will be used
> in syslog messages" );
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -x --print            print interesting events on
> stdout in a given format" );
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -q --quiet            be quiet (less verbosity,
> repeat or use number for even quieter)" );
>     msg_Raw( NULL, "  -Q --quit-timeout     when locked, quit after this
> delay (in ms), or after the first lock timeout" );
> @@ -532,6 +534,7 @@ int main( int i_argc, char **pp_argv )
>         { "system-charset",  required_argument, NULL, 'j' },
>         { "dvb-charset",     required_argument, NULL, 'J' },
>         { "logger",          no_argument,       NULL, 'l' },
> +        { "logger-ident",    required_argument, NULL, 'g' },
>         { "print",           required_argument, NULL, 'x' },
>         { "quit-timeout",    required_argument, NULL, 'Q' },
>         { "quiet",           no_argument,       NULL, 'q' },
> @@ -541,7 +544,7 @@ int main( int i_argc, char **pp_argv )
>         { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
>     };
>
> -    while ( (c = getopt_long(i_argc, pp_argv,
> "q::c:r:t:o:i:a:n:f:F:R:s:S:v:pb:I:m:P:K:G:H:X:O:uwUTL:E:d:D:A:lzCWYeM:N:j:J:x:Q:hVZ:",
> long_options, NULL)) != -1 )
> +    while ( (c = getopt_long(i_argc, pp_argv,
> "q::c:r:t:o:i:a:n:f:F:R:s:S:v:pb:I:m:P:K:G:H:X:O:uwUTL:E:d:D:A:lg:zCWYeM:N:j:J:x:Q:hVZ:",
> long_options, NULL)) != -1 )
>     {
>         switch ( c )
>         {
> @@ -777,6 +780,10 @@ int main( int i_argc, char **pp_argv )
>             b_enable_syslog = 1;
>             break;
>
> +        case 'g':
> +            psz_syslog_ident = optarg;
> +            break;
> +
>         case 'x':
>             if ( !strcmp(optarg, "text") )
>                 i_print_type = PRINT_TEXT;
> @@ -809,7 +816,7 @@ int main( int i_argc, char **pp_argv )
>         usage();
>
>     if ( b_enable_syslog )
> -        msg_Connect( pp_argv[0] );
> +        msg_Connect( psz_syslog_ident ? psz_syslog_ident : pp_argv[0] );
>
>     if ( i_verbose )
>         DisplayVersion();
>
>


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