/*************************************************************************** open_syslog_on_stderr.c - description ------------------- begin : Feb 10 2003 copyright : (C) 2003,2004,2005 by Noberasco Michele e-mail : noberasco.gnu@disi.unige.it ***************************************************************************/ /*************************************************************************** * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * * (at your option) any later version. * * * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * * GNU General Public License for more details. * * * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * * along with this program; if not, write to the * * Free Software Foundation, Inc., * * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * * ***************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* this is the thread that will actually read * from our redirected stderr, forwarding to syslog */ void syslog_writer(char *filename) { FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "r"); char buf[1024]; if (!fp) { /* we write this to stdout as stderr is probably compromised at this point */ printf("wmpower: syslog_writer thread: fatal error: unable to hook to main thread's stderr!\n"); abort(); } /* inititalize syslog writer */ openlog("wmpower", 0, LOG_USER); /* we remove it so that noone will tamper */ unlink(filename); while (1) { fflush(NULL); while (fgets(buf, 1023, fp)) syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s", buf); sleep(1); } } /* * Redirect writes to sterr on syslog... * we achieve this by starting a new thread, creating a file * that the father will write to, and the child read from, * rewriting it to syslog. Also, we unlink() the file as soon * as both father and child have it open, so that no other * process will be able to tamper with it. */ void open_syslog_on_stderr(void) { pthread_t thread; char *filename; int fd; filename = (char*) malloc(19*sizeof(char)); if (!filename) { fprintf(stderr, "wmpower: fatal error: failed allocating memory!\n"); abort(); } strcpy(filename, "/tmp/wmpowerXXXXXX"); fd = mkstemp(filename); if (fd == -1) { fprintf(stderr, "wmpower: fatal error: could not create temporary file!\n"); abort(); } /* set file mode to 600 */ if (chmod(filename, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)) { fprintf(stderr, "wmpower: fatal error: cannot chmod() file!\n"); abort(); } if (!freopen(filename, "w", stderr)) { fprintf(stderr, "wmpower: fatal error: unable to redirect stderr!\n"); abort(); } /* close the file descriptor as we have no need for it */ close(fd); /* spawn our syslog_writer baby */ if (pthread_create(&thread, NULL, (void*)(&syslog_writer), filename)) { fprintf(stderr, "wmpower: fatal error: failed to create syslog-writer thread!\n"); abort(); } }