From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 21 04:54:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22557 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 04:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.craxx.com (craxx.com [195.108.198.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22544 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 04:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lva@dds.nl) Received: from uptight (classless.student.utwente.nl [130.89.230.96]) by mail.craxx.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA26887 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:53:54 +0200 From: "laurens van alphen" To: Subject: RE: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:53:44 +0200 Message-ID: <001701bdccfa$593e3020$0a00a8c0@uptight.student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 In-Reply-To: <29367.903682974@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, here's what i did (after reading your message): root@pebbles:~# ls -l /var/run/log srw-rw---- 1 root log 0 Aug 20 23:28 /var/run/log root@pebbles:~# cat /etc/group | grep log log:*:10:shutdown,auth,mail,named,www,sql,pop,ftp those are daemons that run around here (www is apache and actually doesn't need syslog i just remembered, besides it's chrooted so it doesn't even have a socket, as is sql). you get the idea. if i encounter any problems with this setup, i will report them here. logger doesn't give an error message but doesn't log anything either. -- laurens van alphen craxx e-consultants alphen@craxx.com http://craxx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message