[BusyBox] older 06.5 syslogd problem

[Brian T]

> >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has seen the older busybox syslogd remove
the
> > > "<" character, and the next character after it when looking at the
60.5
> > > syslogd version?
> >
> > This looks like syslog is interpreting these entries as if they were
coming
> > from kernel printk output via klogd and interpreting the <? character
> > sequences as log levels.  The kernel log levels are indicated by using
> > special character strings at the front of log messages like "<0>", "<1>"
> > etc.  They are defined in linux/kernel.h as macros KERN_EMERG,
KERN_ALERT
> > etc.
> >
> > I suspect it should only be accepting them at the start of the message,
and
> > only if they match the pattern '<' digit 0-7 '>'.
>
> I agree entirely.  The only flaw I see in the analysis is that the
> code I see in busybox-0.60.5 klogd.c (that Gennady Feldman wrote and
> I helped test, years ago) appears to do exactly that.  Is there a
> chance Brian has an older busybox around, or a non-busybox klogd running?
>
>     - Larry

I'm running busybox 0.60.5.  Both klogd and syslogd are from this version
I'm running :

[root at JBMgateway-v59 root]# ps ax
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:05 init
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
    3 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
    5 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
    6 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
    7 ?        SW     0:00 [mtdblockd]
   12 ?        SWN    0:02 [jffs2_gcd_mtd1]
   51 ?        S      0:00 /bin/cron
  184 ?        SW     0:00 [eth0]
  252 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/syslogd -n
  253 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/klogd -n
  255 ?        S      0:00 /bin/inetd
  256 ttyS0    S      0:00 -sh
  319 ttyS0    R      0:00 ps ax
[root at JBMgateway-v59 root]# ls -al /sbin/klogd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jan 27 14:33 /sbin/klogd ->
../bin/busybox
[root at JBMgateway-v59 root]# ls -al /sbin/syslogd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jan 27 14:33 /sbin/syslogd ->
../bin/busybox
[root at JBMgateway-v59 root]# busybox
BusyBox v0.60.5 (2004.01.13-16:18+0000) multi-call binary

What do you suggest?

-Brian