varnishncsa -- please support a config file

[Raymond Jennings III]

I'll second that request.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can we get config file support for varnishncsa? (possible varnishlog,
> too I suppose)
>
> In FreeBSD we're fighting with a shell quote nightmare. We permit users
> to set the varnishncsa log file format in /etc/rc.conf via:
>
> varnishncsa_logformat=""
>
> I've had to change the way we drop privs from the rc.subr system to a
> custom one based on our daemon(8) utility to successfully pass the
> entire string to varnishncsa but we still can't get quotes passed
> through. Escaping them isn't working either.
>
> varnishncsa_logformat="%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\"
> \"%{User-agent}i\" (%{Varnish:handling}x)"
>
> # ps ax | grep [n]csa
> 94729 ??  SsJ   0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/varnishncsa -t off -P
> /var/run/varnishncsa.pid -D -a -w /data/log/http/varnish_access.log -F
> %h %l %u %t %r %s %b %{Referer}i %{User-agent}i (%{Varnish:handling}x)
>
> The quotes end up missing which users (and log parsers) expect to be
> there. :(
>
> This is not an easy problem to solve. We could probably fix /etc/rc.subr
> in FreeBSD but the reality is that it will not be usable by current
> users. We will have to wait for the update to trickle down into newer
> releases and older releases to be EoL. (so around 2017)
>
> If we could read settings from a config file it would solve this problem
> cleanly...
>
>
> Thanks
>
> --
>   Mark Felder
>   feld at feld.me
>
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