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From: gww@beatnix.UUCP (Gary Winiger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange syslog behavior in ftpd
Message-ID: <498@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 14:34:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: elxsi.498
Posted: Fri Sep  4 14:34:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 18:46:13 EDT
References: <2872@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Sender: nobody@elxsi.UUCP
Reply-To: gww@beatnix.UUCP (Gary Winiger)
Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose
Lines: 118
Keywords: BSD 4.3, syslog, ftpd

In article <2872@psuvax1.psu.edu> ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:

>
>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.

The problem deals with the use of the -d (debug) flag.  The person who
translated 4.2 ftpd to 4.3 screwed up the debugging output.  I've made
the fix locally, but not gotten around to posting to comp.4bsd.bugs.

Here's my bug fix:

*** /tmp/,RCSt1000591	Fri Jul 31 12:13:35 1987
--- ftpd.c	Fri Jul 31 12:12:48 1987
***************
*** 1,5 ****
--- 1,9 ----
  /*
   * $Log:	ftpd.c,v $
+  * Revision 1.3  87/07/31  12:10:39  gww
+  * Have debugging output through syslog work.
+  * Syslog(3) supports a maximum of 5 variables for the string NOT varargs!
+  * 
***************
*** 20,26 ****
  #endif not lint
  
  #ifndef lint
! static char *ERcsId = "$Header: ftpd.c,v 1.2 87/07/31 11:56:22 gww Exp $ ENIX BSD";
  static char sccsid[] = "@(#)ftpd.c	5.7 (Berkeley) 5/28/86";
  #endif not lint
  
--- 24,30 ----
  #endif not lint
  
  #ifndef lint
! static char *ERcsId = "$Header: ftpd.c,v 1.3 87/07/31 12:10:39 gww Exp $ ENIX BSD";
  static char sccsid[] = "@(#)ftpd.c	5.7 (Berkeley) 5/28/86";
  #endif not lint
  
***************
*** 605,638 ****
  	dologout(0);
  }
  
! /*VARARGS2*/
! reply(n, s, args)
  	int n;
  	char *s;
  {
  
  	printf("%d ", n);
! 	_doprnt(s, &args, stdout);
  	printf("\r\n");
  	(void) fflush(stdout);
  	if (debug) {
  		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "<--- %d ", n);
! 		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, s, &args);
  	}
  }
  
! /*VARARGS2*/
! lreply(n, s, args)
  	int n;
  	char *s;
  {
  	printf("%d-", n);
! 	_doprnt(s, &args, stdout);
  	printf("\r\n");
  	(void) fflush(stdout);
  	if (debug) {
  		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "<--- %d- ", n);
! 		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, s, &args);
  	}
  }
  
--- 609,640 ----
  	dologout(0);
  }
  
! reply(n, s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4)
  	int n;
  	char *s;
  {
  
  	printf("%d ", n);
! 	printf(s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4);
  	printf("\r\n");
  	(void) fflush(stdout);
  	if (debug) {
  		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "<--- %d ", n);
! 		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4);
  	}
  }
  
! lreply(n, s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4)
  	int n;
  	char *s;
  {
  	printf("%d-", n);
! 	printf(s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4);
  	printf("\r\n");
  	(void) fflush(stdout);
  	if (debug) {
  		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "<--- %d- ", n);
! 		syslog(LOG_DEBUG, s, p0, p1, p2, p3, p4);
  	}
  }