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-rw-r--r--sysklogd/syslogd.c13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
index 0dc69d8cc..0d004bc27 100644
--- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ struct globals {
struct shbuf_ds *shbuf;
#endif
time_t last_log_time;
- /* localhost's name */
- char localHostName[64];
+ /* localhost's name. We print only first 64 chars */
+ char *hostname;
/* We recv into recvbuf... */
char recvbuf[MAX_READ];
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static void timestamp_and_log(int pri, char *msg, int len)
else {
char res[20];
parse_fac_prio_20(pri, res);
- sprintf(G.printbuf, "%s %s %s %s\n", timestamp, G.localHostName, res, msg);
+ sprintf(G.printbuf, "%s %.64s %s %s\n", timestamp, G.hostname, res, msg);
}
/* Log message locally (to file or shared mem) */
@@ -647,11 +647,8 @@ int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
option_mask32 |= OPT_locallog;
/* Store away localhost's name before the fork */
- /* "It is unspecified whether the truncated hostname
- * will be null-terminated". We give it (size - 1),
- * thus last byte will be NUL no matter what. */
- gethostname(G.localHostName, sizeof(G.localHostName) - 1);
- *strchrnul(G.localHostName, '.') = '\0';
+ G.hostname = safe_gethostname();
+ *strchrnul(G.hostname, '.') = '\0';
if (!(option_mask32 & OPT_nofork)) {
bb_daemonize_or_rexec(DAEMON_CHDIR_ROOT, argv);