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ftp requests to syslog

Syslog logging can be quite obscure - programs that use syslog often don't bother to document exactly what causes them to log what and at what level. That wasn't the problem here (he just missed a required field), but I've cerainly experience that elsewhere.

See log level (configuring syslog) and Syslogd MARK option.

From: Roberto Zini <fred@strhold.it>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Logging FTP Request
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:15:46 +0100
Message-ID: <38326432.271DE04F@strhold.it> 

Troy Edmonson wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems forcing syslogd to report ftp logging.  I have
> modified /etc/inetd.conf as follows:
> 
> ftp stream tcp nowait /etc/ftpd ftpd -Lio                       

You forgot the 'user' item in the above line; also, I've added 
the '-u 022 -t 300' switches to the ftpd ones :

ftp stream tcp nowait root /etc/ftpd ftpd -Lio -u 022 -t 300
                      ^^^^                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You could also use NOLUID instead of root as the 'user' field.

> 
> I modified /etc/syslog.conf to include the following:
> 
> daemon.*  /usr/adm/daemon.log

Remember to use TABS between the 2 items.

> 
> After restarting, and an ftp log session, nothing.

Did you signal (kill -HUP) syslogd ? Eg, 'kill -HUP <syslog.pid>'
where <syslog.pid> is the number stored into the /etc/syslog.pid
file.

> 
> Help appreciated....
> 
> Troy

Hope this helps !

Best,
Roberto

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