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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: syslog + chroot + ftpd
Message-ID: <3787@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 19:08:58 GMT
References: <LUIS.90Jul27181155@lutetia.rice.edu>
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>has anyone noticed that syslog stops logging when ftpd logs in an
>anonymous ftp user?  i have tracked the problem to the chroot system
>call. prior to chroot() syslog works as advertized. once the chroot()
>is executed inside tftpd, however, syslog calls no longer get
>recorded. 

The 4.3BSD "syslog()" (as appears in SunOS 4.0, among other systems)
connects to "syslogd" using a UNIX-domain socket.  Do a "chroot()", and
that UNIX-domain socket may no longer be accessible....

I seem to remember much discussion of fixes to this problem at one
point; I no longer remember what conclusions were drawn, if any.