Changelog

0.18                                                    (20230609)

- add tail_missing option to monitor log files which do not exist yet
- make logfile a dynamic option

0.17                                                    (20171019)

- improve logic for dropping privileges to ensure coverage for tail process
        Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>

0.16                                                    (20170817)

- pid file is now created before dropping privileges (CVE-2017-11746)
- remove old redhat, solaris and suse init scripts
- rewrite and simplify the OpenRC init script
- rename the "gentoo" init script to "openrc"
        Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
- throttle monitoring loop on empty reads
- added options for listening on Redis queues (redisqueue, redisserver)
        Mark Janssen <mark@sig-io.nl>

0.15                                                    (20140804)

- added mailhelo option for friendlier SMTP connections
        Christian Zuckschwerdt <christian@zuckschwerdt.org>
- add missing dataend just before quitting the SMTP connection
        Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>
- fix stderr leak
        Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>
- fix erroneous 'no readable log files' error when in listen mode
        Bethany Long <Bethany.Long@wwu.edu>

0.14                                                    (20120603)

- cleaned up tail invocation code, fixed repeat handling, gentoo init script update
        Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>

0.13                                                    (20110713)

- added threshold feature for discarding logs with count below specified value
- fixed broken queue flushing on exit
- delay daemonization to catch start up errors
- make sure terminal colour is always reset
- improved clean up on exit
        all changes in this release thanks to Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>

0.12                                                    (20100917)

- open FIFO in rw mode, fixes bug that causes CPU spinning and processing interruption
        Michael Braun <michael-devel@fami-braun.de>
- redhat rpm spec fixes + opensuse rpm spec and init script
        Heinrich Terhardt <Heinrich.Terhardt@simcon-mt.com>

0.11                                                    (20090719)

- change process name to tenshi when in daemon mode
- timezone is no longer cached, preventing incorrect timestamps on DST change
- allow leftmost queue escalation, warn on unreadable log files instead of exiting
        Heath Caldwell <hncaldwell@csupomona.edu>
- added resolve option
        Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>

0.10                                                    (20080313)

- includedir now skips dotfiles
- pid file is now created in debug, profile and foreground modes
- fixed incorrect uid check not handling root user
- fixed buggy time_to_die
- fixed buggy tail_multiple option parsing
- fixed empty report sending if filter program returns no output
- fixed bug on unmatched subpatterns
        Adam James <atj@pulsewidth.org.uk>
- die before pipe if tail_file is not readable, prevents fd leak
- replaced IO::Select with IO::BufferedSelect, fixes parsing delay of buffered lines

0.9.1                                                   (20071004)

- improved debug messages
- moved CHLD signal handler earlier in the code
- fixed buggy multiple tail processes handling
        Paul B. Henson <henson@csupomona.edu>

0.9                                                     (20070919)

- added tail_multiple option
- added csv option for comma separated output to custom parser
- merged tailargs and filterargs features in tail, filter ones
- added FAQ file
- another round of rpm spec fixes + fd leak fix
        Elan Ruusamäe <glen@delfi.ee>

0.8                                                     (20070819)

- fixed some rpm spec issues
- added support for queue escalation
        Heath Caldwell <hncaldwell@csupomona.edu>

0.7                                                     (20070314)

- fifo option can be specified multiple times
- logfile and fifo mode can be simultaneous
- better pipe opening method for the tail process
        Paul B. Henson <henson@csupomona.edu>
- includedir now sorts entries alphabetically
        Andreas Niederl <rico32@gmx.net>
- stdin is now closed as soon as possible
- replaced alarm based timeout with IO::Select
- minor fix of getpwnam checks
- added sort_order option
- added listen option for syslog server mode
        Daniele Cortesi <dan@linux.it>
- added RedHat init file and rpm spec from
        Steven McCoy <steven@indigorobot.com>

0.6                                                     (20060928)

- added group_host feature for selective hostname matching

0.5.1                                                   (20060618)

- fixed buggy noprefix queue implementation

0.5                                                     (20060609)

- improved sanity checks
- added debug levels, level 2 enables Net::SMTP debug messages
- replaced Getopt::Std with Getopt::Long
- filter feature is now per queue definable
- added special noprefix queue for unprefixed logs
- added supplementary groups clearing when dropping privileges
- moved to ISC-style license

0.4                                                     (20060104)

- added uid, gid options for setting effective UID, GID
- added colourization of debug messages
- added filter, filterargs options for report pre-processing
- added [pager:]<mail_to> syntax for sending pager friendly reports
- added mailtimeout option
- fixed tail, tailargs incorrectly being treated as dynamic options

0.3.4                                                   (20060616)

- added include, includedir options for parsing external configuration files
- added multiple queues feature
- fixed missing USR1 signal handler
- added filetest pragma for proper perms check when using POSIX ACL
- added debian init file

0.3.3                                                   (20050318)

- fixed whitespaces only lines handling in configuration file
- added configuration check mode and checkconfig target in init scripts

0.3.2                                                   (20041109)

- added X-tenshi-version, X-tenshi-hostname, X-tenshi-report-start headers
- fixed orphan tail process problem, filehandle is now closed on shutdown
- fixed bug in cron specs handling
- LC_TIME locale is internally set to "C" now for compliant Date header
- mail address specification allows local part only
- added foreground mode

0.3.1                                                   (20040721)

- added tailargs option
- fixed buggy logprefix implementation
- fixed buggy cron */skip implementation
- fixed broken cron specs examples

0.3                                                     (20040715)

- changed name due to trademark issues
- added skip groups to speed parsing
- added cron-style specs instead of time periods
- added ability to send to multiple recipients, suggested by
        Marc Doumayrou <doud@rhoas.net>
- added solaris init file from Marc Doumayrou <doud@rhoas.net>
- added logprefix option to handle non-syslog logs
- added status messages
- added log files perms check
- fixed strftime portability issue
        Andrew Eason <andrew@armstrong.edu>

0.2.1                                                   (20040622)

- fixed missing headers in smtp code
- added hidepid feature
- replaced expand_repeats with builtin repeat queue

0.2                                                     (20040621)

- added multiple file support
- big performance improvements: BerkeleyDB and Storable are no longer required
- better signal handling including configuration reload, see tenshi.8 SIGNALS section
- replaced mda option with mailserver, now reports are handled by Net::SMTP
- added per-queue report subjects
- added expand_repeats option to handle "last message repeated x times" nicely
- added profiling mode
- mask option without argument now allows an empty mask
- pidfile is removed on shutdown
- die if our child process dies
- removed prescan option

0.1                                                     (20040604)

- first public release