Printing out the whole path to the kernel all the time in syslog messages is
a bit redundant and ugly, especially seeing that it isn't done for any other
binaries.

Should I send-pr this thing too, or is just sending it to -hackers enough?

--- usr/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c.old      Sat Jan 13 21:20:28 2001
+++ usr/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c  Sat Jan 13 22:27:44 2001
@@ -734,8 +734,8 @@
        int flags;
 {
        struct filed *f;
-       int i, fac, msglen, omask, prilev;
-       char *timestamp;
+       int i, fac, msglen, omask, prilev, bflen;
+       char *timestamp, *bfshort;
        char prog[NAME_MAX+1];
        char buf[MAXLINE+1];
 
@@ -784,7 +784,16 @@
 
        /* add kernel prefix for kernel messages */
        if (flags & ISKERNEL) {
-               snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s: %s", bootfile, msg);
+               /* ignore path to kernel */
+               bflen = strlen(bootfile);
+               bfshort = bootfile;
+               while(bflen--)
+                       if(*(bootfile+bflen) == '/')
+                       {
+                               bfshort = bootfile+bflen+1;
+                               break;
+                       }
+               snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s: %s", bfshort, msg);
                msg = buf;
                msglen = strlen(buf);
        }


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