From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 06:00:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01812 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 06:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pos-srv4100.javanet.com (pos-srv4100.javanet.com [208.134.56.21] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA01798 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 06:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vger.void.org (noho-us205.javanet.com [206.150.72.68]) by pos-srv4100.javanet.com (8.8.6/8.7) with SMTP id JAA10430; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:00:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3406C7A3.41C67EA6@javanet.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:59:15 -0400 From: John Szumowski X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phillip@rmit.edu.au CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble with tcp-wrappers' logging References: <199708291225.WAA02322@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [cc'd to freebsd-questions] Phillip Musumeci wrote: > > One other thing --- have you got your tcp control files in /usr/local/etc > (and not /etc)? > > Enclosed: a sample of my /usr/local/etc/hosts.deny. phillip > > # local hero, known probing hosts/spam sources > ALL: ra.cse.rmit.edu.au, \ > .ispam.net, \ > .visions.com, \ > user4180.theonramp.net Since I'm only offering telnet (at the moment), I don't have a "host.allow|deny" in either directory. I've also tried grabbing all tcpd messages, rather than just auth.info in /var/log/tcplog: (the last two lines in the file) --- !tcpd *.* /var/log/tcplog -- However, I see the following at boot time: syslogd: unknown priority name "" This is puzzling as, after screwing with the orriginal syslog.conf, I replaced it with the one in /usr/src/etc and appended the two extra lines. Thanks. > > -- > UNIX _IS_ user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. > --unknown