syslogd config patch

[Tito]

On Wednesday 24 November 2010 16:57:01 Sergey Naumov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have made alpha version support for syslog.conf in busybox. Now it
> supports only local logging.
> Config file format is:
> facility.[=|!=]priority    /some/file
> 
> It suits me, because i need only
> kern.info       /var/log/messages
> *.*                /dev/null
> 
> but I want to ask whether we should support something like
> fac1.prio1 fac2.prio2 ... facN.prioN /some/file ?
> 
> It will consume some code space, but for complex syslog.conf file (if
> such one exist in embedded system) it will save some memory, because
> there will be only 1 file name stored for several fac.prio entries.
> 
> Patch file for busybox-1.18.0 is attached.
> Any comments and recommendations are welcomed.
> This code should be additionally tested, but I prefer to hear your
> suggestions first.
> 
> Sergey Naumov.
> 


Hi,
i recall that there are some config file parse functions
in libbb/parse_config.c, maybe they could be used here?

Ciao,
Tito