From 8ca367d609c3e6cf7804d15fb3d76d9c1a3ef021 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:02:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Use /dev/log for SYSLOG output. Thanks to Joerg Sommrey

git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/trunk@488 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605
---
 CHANGELOG            | 1 +
 config/fail2ban.conf | 5 +++--
 server/server.py     | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 3530ac3a..fc591814 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Fail2Ban (version 0.7.6)                           200?/??/??
 ver. 0.7.6 (200?/??/??) - ???
 ----------
 - Added a "sleep 1" in redhat-initd. Thanks to Jim Wight
+- Use /dev/log for SYSLOG output. Thanks to Joerg Sommrey
 
 ver. 0.7.5 (2006/12/07) - beta
 ----------
diff --git a/config/fail2ban.conf b/config/fail2ban.conf
index 90439d0c..518c2ff4 100644
--- a/config/fail2ban.conf
+++ b/config/fail2ban.conf
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
 loglevel = 3
 
 # Option:  logtarget
-# Notes.:  Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR.
-# Values:  STDERR SYSLOG file  Default:  /var/log/fail2ban.log
+# Notes.:  Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR or STDOUT.
+#          Only one log target can be specified.
+# Values:  STDOUT STDERR SYSLOG file  Default:  /var/log/fail2ban.log
 #
 logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log
 
diff --git a/server/server.py b/server/server.py
index b93032b0..13d57669 100644
--- a/server/server.py
+++ b/server/server.py
@@ -306,7 +306,9 @@ class Server:
 			# Remove previous handler
 			logging.getLogger("fail2ban").handlers = []
 			if target == "SYSLOG":
-				hdlr = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler()
+				facility = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON
+				hdlr = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler("/dev/log",
+													  facility = facility)
 			elif target == "STDOUT":
 				hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
 			elif target == "STDERR":