SUMMARY: changing the syslog facility for in.ftpd

From: Christopher L. Barnard (cbar44@tsg.cbot.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 14:24:40 EDT


I asked

> This is Solaris 9, using the sun-shipped ftp (wu-ftpd).
>
> I want my ftp server to log to a different facility to separate those logs
> from other daemons running on this box. I do not find where I specify the
> facility to use when using syslog. Where do I specify such an entry? TIA
> and I will summarize.

The solution

It cannot be done. It is not supported by default. My options are to
edit the source code for wu-ftpd to change the syslog facility or investigate
a more powerful syslog like syslog-ng.

Thanks to

Sun Microsystems. I ended up opening a ticket on this.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that |
| cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. |
| (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. |
| http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow |
+----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:29:31 EDT