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Changes for version 0.13

  • [CODE] Merged blead@26768: If getservbyname fails tell what service the lookup attempt tried to use. [CODE] Merged blead@26769: suppress Sys::Hostname usage and directly use INADDR_LOOPBACK. [CODE] Merged blead@26772: $host needs to stay in case the user sets it. [CODE] Merged blead@26773: check that $syslog_path is a socket. [TESTS] RT#16980 (Alan Burlison): Sys::Syslog blows up rather spectacularly on Solaris. Corrected by previous patches. [TESTS] Applied Gisle Aas patch for a better handling of error messages, then optimized it. [TESTS] RT#16974: Failed test in t/podspell. This test is now skipped.

Modules

Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls