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Request #54144 add php.ini option for syslog program name
Submitted: 2011-03-03 01:18 UTC Modified: 2021-10-15 17:50 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.9
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (33.3%)
Same OS:1 (33.3%)
From: info at mschuette dot name Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PHP options/info functions
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: all unix-likes
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-03-03 01:18 UTC] info at mschuette dot name 
Description:
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It would be useful to configure the syslog program name in php.ini (or httpd.conf for mod_php). 
The appended patch adds two config variables 'syslog.program' and 'syslog.pid'.

I am using it for one year now on a shared webserver; it enables me to use syslog for central log collection, associate logged errors with users, and give all users access to their own log data.

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patch-ext_standard_syslog.diff (last revision 2011-03-03 00:19 UTC by info at mschuette dot name)

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 [2015-08-03 11:24 UTC] tyrael@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: tyrael
 [2021-10-13 16:38 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Feedback -Assigned To: tyrael +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-10-13 16:38 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Isn't a call to openlog()[1] a better idea?

[1] <https://www.php.net/openlog>
 [2021-10-15 17:31 UTC] info at mschuette dot name
-Status: Feedback +Status: Assigned
 [2021-10-15 17:31 UTC] info at mschuette dot name 
The context of this feature request was a shared hosting setup.
In that context I wanted a central administrative control and could not trust users (or their wordpress, phpBB, etc.) to set the correct openlog() parameters.

I assume that use case is no longer relevant today, certainly it is much less common than it used to be.

IMHO this request ticket can be closed.
 [2021-10-15 17:50 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2021-10-15 17:50 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Thanks for the swift reply, and also explaining the context!

> I assume that use case is no longer relevant today, certainly it
> is much less common than it used to be.

Likely the latter, but it seems that such shared hosting setups
are still in use.

> IMHO this request ticket can be closed.

I'll do.  For those still needing this, consider to use
auto_prepend_file[1].

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.auto-prepend-file>
 
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