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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: syslog + chroot + ftpd
Message-ID: <29159:Jul2820:23:5290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 20:23:52 GMT
References: <LUIS.90Jul27181155@lutetia.rice.edu>
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In article <LUIS.90Jul27181155@lutetia.rice.edu> luis@lutetia.rice.edu (Luis Soltero) writes:
  [ on a Sun ]
> has anyone noticed that syslog stops logging when ftpd logs in an
> anonymous ftp user?

syslog's poor model has ftp writing to a UNIX-domain socket in the
filesystem. Naturally, ftp can't find the file after it chroots. Try
hardlinking in a new /dev/log (I think) below ftp's home directory.

If error messages were piped out stderr to an error-handling program,
these problems would never happen.

---Dan