[PATCH] svlogd: strip leading '!' from processor lines

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 15 12:05:32 UTC 2016


applied, thanks!

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Francis" == Francis Rounds <Francis.Rounds at 4bridgeworks.com> writes:
>
>  > When using svlogd's processor functionality to run arbitrary commands
>  > on log rotation, the line in the config is executed verbatim, i.e. the
>  > exclamation mark is included.
>
>  > For example, if the config file contains:
>
>  >     s100
>  >     !cat
>
>  > then when it's time to rotate the log files after each 100 bytes, sh -c
>  > "!cat" will be run, instead of sh -c "cat" as intended. The result is
>  > svlogd logging
>
>  >     /bin/bash: !cat: command not found
>  >     svlogd: warning: processor failed, restart: /tmp/svlogd/
>
>  > over and over again as it keeps attempting to execute the processor and
>  > failing (unless you happen to have a "!cat" binary around :)).
>
>  > Skipping the exclamation mark when performing the wstrdup() fixes the
>  > issue.
>
>  > Signed-off-by: Francis Rounds <francis.rounds at 4bridgeworks.com>
>
> Argh, indeed :/
>
> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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