From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 5:31:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f118.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B0B37B9ED for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 55520 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 2000 13:31:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000305133145.55519.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 203.134.31.13 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 05 Mar 2000 05:31:45 PST X-Originating-IP: [203.134.31.13] From: "fbsd question" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: syslog not looging to file Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 13:31:45 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Cannot get syslog to write to file /var/log/ftp.log Have run syslog in debug mode, it registers an ftp session, but does not write it to log file.Also tested using 'logger -t ftpd "someones using Ftp" .Here's part of debug output Also have done touch ftp.log ......... FILE: /var/log/ppp.log ......... UNUSED: (telnetd) ......... UNUSED: (ftpd) What causes UNUSED how do i get FILE: /var/log/ftp.log ? Here's my syslog.conf *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/cron/log *.err root *.notice;news.err root *.alert root *.emerg * # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log #monitor telnet,ftp connections !telnetd *.* /var/log/telnet.log !ftpd *.* /var/log/ftp.log Can some help thanks aa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message