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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: Re: syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" error
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990609131405.009f2740@mail.elehost.com> from Paul MacKenzie at "Jun 9, 99 01:18:18 pm"
To: pc.mackenzie@utoronto.ca (Paul MacKenzie)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul MacKenzie wrote,
> Chris,
> 
> It is weird that this did not show up on the previous server (as the config was
> the same)
> 
> I have the following line
> 
> telnet.*                                        /var/log/telnetd
> 
> How can I add this in as a facility (if possible at all)?

'telnet' is not a valid facility. See syslog(3) for a listing.

> Obviously, the nature of the need is to log all telnet messages in a specific
> area
> 
> Thanks for your help

I answered a similar question about named a while back,

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=10144929+10147486+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990509.freebsd-questions

Grepping the telnetd code, I spotted the following,

telnetd.c:      openlog("telnetd", LOG_PID | LOG_ODELAY, LOG_DAEMON);

Which shows telnet uses the 'daemon' facility for internal
messages. However, I believe telnet calls 'login' which talks to the
'auth' facility. To catch all of that, you would enter something like,

!telnetd
*.*						/var/log/telnetd

Which I think should do it.

HTH.

> At 12:18 PM 09/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Paul MacKenzie wrote,
> >>      Any idea why I am getting this error?
> >> 
> >> syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" when syslogd starts
> >> 
> >> Any help would be much appreciated. I was in the process of doing a test
> >> reinstall of a system to see how fast I could do it and I ran into this
> >> problem.
> >
> >Sending along a copy of your /etc/syslog.conf would probably be a good
> >idea. My guess is that somewhere in syslog.conf you have something
> >along the lines of,
> >
> >telnet.info                                    /var/log/telnet.log
> >
> >But "telnet" is an unknown facility name.
> >-- 
> >Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> 


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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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