In order to get around the problem I mentioned earlier with messages being logged to the $HOST (s) "Message" and "last", I altered the sources.c file do_add_source_name subroutine lines from:

                              if (logmsg->host)
                                      logmsg->host =
                                              c_format("%fS/%fS",
                                                       logmsg->host, name);

to:
                              if (logmsg->host)
                                      logmsg->host =
                                              c_format("%fS/%fS",
                                                       name, logmsg->host);

After making this change (swapping name and logmsg->host arguments), messages that used to look like:

Sep 20 02:08:22 Message/aaaa.bbbb.cornell.edu forwarded from aaaa: sshd[40128]: log: ...

Now appear as:

Sep 20 02:08:22 aaaa.bbbb.cornell.edu/Message forwarded from aaaa: sshd[40128]: log: ...

(To be honest, I think the second format looks better anyway.)

I actually changed (simplified) the entire do_add_source_name subroutine chain_hostnames block in accordance with our needs. I'm including below the patch I generated to show how that code now looks.

*** sources.c   Tue Aug 22 04:44:55 2000
--- sources.c.new       Wed Sep 20 06:25:53 2000
***************
*** 198,223 ****
                name = get_source_hostname(logmsg->saddr,
                                           self->use_dns, self->use_fqdn);
                if (self->chain_hostnames) {
!                       if (logmsg->flags & LF_LOCAL) {
!                               /* local */
!                               ol_string_free(logmsg->host);
!                               logmsg->host = c_format("%S@%fS",
!                                                       self->name, name);
!                       }
!                       else if (!logmsg->host) {
!                               /* remote && no hostname */
!                               logmsg->host = c_format("%S/%fS", name, name);
!                       }
!                       else {
!                               /* everything else, append source hostname */
!                               if (logmsg->host)
!                                       logmsg->host =
!                                               c_format("%fS/%fS",
!                                                        logmsg->host, name);
!                               else
!                                       logmsg->host =
!                                               c_format("%fS", name);
!                       }
                }
                else {
                        ol_string_free(logmsg->host);
--- 198,208 ----
                name = get_source_hostname(logmsg->saddr,
                                           self->use_dns, self->use_fqdn);
                if (self->chain_hostnames) {
!                       if (logmsg->host)
!                               logmsg->host = c_format("%fS/%fS",
!                                                        name, logmsg->host);
!                       else
!                               logmsg->host = c_format("%fS", name);
                }
                else {
                        ol_string_free(logmsg->host);


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John A. Parker        Senior Programmer/Analyst - AIX      Cornell University
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