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From: ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Strange syslog behavior in ftpd
Message-ID: <2872@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 22:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 22:55:09 1987
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Organization: Penn State University, University Park, PA
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Keywords: BSD 4.3, syslog, ftpd

I have been trying to track down why ftpd on BSD 4.3 UNIX will not log
any messages after the first call to yyparse().  I have not been able
to find any calls to closelog(3) in any of the modules.  I even added a
syslog call immediately before calling yyparse() inside the for(;;)
loop.  It gets logged exactly once and even though there are more calls
to syslog later on they never make it to the log file.  I am going on
the assumption that either the socket to the syslogd is being closed or
that some static data in lib/libc/syslog.c is being trashed by the parser.
I have not been able to find evidence of either.

The ftpd is being started by inetd.  The entry for ftpd in inetd.conf
is:

ftp	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/etc/ftpd	ftpd -l -d

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Does anyone know why it happens?
Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks in advance.