Ubuntu Manpage: krb5_initlog, krb5_openlog, krb5_closelog, krb5_addlog_dest, krb5_addlog_func, krb5_log, krb5

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NAME

       krb5_initlog,  krb5_openlog,  krb5_closelog,  krb5_addlog_dest,  krb5_addlog_func,  krb5_log,  krb5_vlog,
       krb5_log_msg, krb5_vlog_msg — Heimdal logging functions

LIBRARY

       Kerberos 5 Library (libkrb5, -lkrb5)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <krb5.h>

       typedef void
       (*krb5_log_log_func_t)(const char *time, const char *message, void *data);

       typedef void
       (*krb5_log_close_func_t)(void *data);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_addlog_dest(krb5_context context, krb5_log_facility *facility, const char *destination);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_addlog_func(krb5_context   context,    krb5_log_facility    *facility,    int    min,    int    max,
           krb5_log_log_func_t log, krb5_log_close_func_t close, void *data);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_closelog(krb5_context context, krb5_log_facility *facility);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_initlog(krb5_context context, const char *program, krb5_log_facility **facility);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_log(krb5_context context, krb5_log_facility *facility, int level, const char *format, ...);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_log_msg(krb5_context    context,    krb5_log_facility    *facility,   char   **reply,   int   level,
           const char *format, ...);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_openlog(krb5_context context, const char *program, krb5_log_facility **facility);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_vlog(krb5_context  context,  krb5_log_facility   *facility,   int   level,   const   char   *format,
           va_list arglist);

       krb5_error_code
       krb5_vlog_msg(krb5_context    context,    krb5_log_facility   *facility,   char   **reply,   int   level,
           const char *format, va_list arglist);

DESCRIPTION

These functions logs messages to one or more destinations.

The krb5_openlog() function creates a logging facility, that is used to log messages. A facility consists
of one or more destinations (which can be files or syslog or some other device). The program parameter
should be the generic name of the program that is doing the logging. This name is used to lookup which
destinations to use. This information is contained in the logging section of the krb5.conf configuration
file. If no entry is found for program, the entry for default is used, or if that is missing too, SYSLOG
will be used as destination.

To close a logging facility, use the krb5_closelog() function.

To log a message to a facility use one of the functions krb5_log(), krb5_log_msg(), krb5_vlog(), or
krb5_vlog_msg(). The functions ending in _msg return in reply a pointer to the message that just got
logged. This string is allocated, and should be freed with free(). The format is a standard printf()
style format string (but see the BUGS section).

If you want better control of where things gets logged, you can instead of using krb5_openlog() call
krb5_initlog(), which just initializes a facility, but doesn't define any actual logging destinations.
You can then add destinations with the krb5_addlog_dest() and krb5_addlog_func() functions. The first of
these takes a string specifying a logging destination, and adds this to the facility. If you want to do
some non-standard logging you can use the krb5_addlog_func() function, which takes a function to use when
logging. The log function is called for each message with time being a string specifying the current
time, and message the message to log. close is called when the facility is closed. You can pass
application specific data in the data parameter. The min and max parameter are the same as in a
destination (defined below). To specify a max of infinity, pass -1.

krb5_openlog() calls krb5_initlog() and then calls krb5_addlog_dest() for each destination found.

Destinations
The defined destinations (as specified in krb5.conf) follows:

STDERR
This logs to the program's stderr.

FILE:/file

FILE=/file
Log to the specified file. The form using a colon appends to the file, the form with an equal
truncates the file. The truncating form keeps the file open, while the appending form closes
it after each log message (which makes it possible to rotate logs). The truncating form is
mainly for compatibility with the MIT libkrb5.

DEVICE=/device
This logs to the specified device, at present this is the same as FILE:/device.

CONSOLE
Log to the console, this is the same as DEVICE=/dev/console.

SYSLOG[:priority[:facility]]
Send messages to the syslog system, using priority, and facility. To get the name for one of
these, you take the name of the macro passed to syslog(3), and remove the leading LOG_
(LOG_NOTICE becomes NOTICE). The default values (as well as the values used for unrecognised
values), are ERR, and AUTH, respectively. See syslog(3) for a list of priorities and
facilities.

Each destination may optionally be prepended with a range of logging levels, specified as min-max/. If
the level parameter to krb5_log() is within this range (inclusive) the message gets logged to this
destination, otherwise not. Either of the min and max valued may be omitted, in this case min is assumed
to be zero, and max is assumed to be infinity. If you don't include a dash, both min and max gets set to
the specified value. If no range is specified, all messages gets logged.

EXAMPLES

             [logging]
                     kdc = 0/FILE:/var/log/kdc.log
                     kdc = 1-/SYSLOG:INFO:USER
                     default = STDERR

       This will log all messages from the kdc program with level 0 to /var/log/kdc.log, other messages will  be
       logged to syslog with priority LOG_INFO, and facility LOG_USER.  All other programs will log all messages
       to their stderr.

BUGS