172320 – app-admin/syslog-ng - add spoof-source option

Bug 172320 - app-admin/syslog-ng - add spoof-source option

Summary: app-admin/syslog-ng - add spoof-source option

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Mr. Bones. (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2007-03-26 17:33 UTC by Randy Smith
Modified:	2007-03-27 07:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Randy Smith 2007-03-26 17:33:01 UTC

syslog-ng supports the ability to spoof the source of syslog messages when relaying them to other servers using the spoof_source() option. The --enable-spoof-source option needs to used at compile time to turn on the spoof_source() option in syslog-ng.conf.

It would be helpful to have a USE flag to build with --enable-spoof-source.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-26 19:40:55 UTC

are you actually using it?

Comment 2 Randy Smith 2007-03-26 20:43:28 UTC

Yes. I'm using so that I can send syslog info from various network devices into MySQL and to Zenoss' zensyslog daemon. With out it, Zenoss only sees the IP address of the local syslog server and not the host name/IP of the logging device.

net-libs/libnet needs to be installed for syslog-ng to build cleanly. I'd post a patch for the ebuild but all I did was add --enable-spoof-source to the econf line. Obviously, a build dependency on libnet would need to be added if spoof-source is enabled.

Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-27 07:40:10 UTC

in 2.0.3

thanks for the bug report.