From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 21:51:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21904 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tippy2.vnet.net (tippy2.vnet.net [166.82.197.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21898 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cmadison@localhost) by tippy2.vnet.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA03994; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:50:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Madison To: Veggy Vinny cc: Mike , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcpwrapper logs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I just read both the syslogd(8), syslog(5) manpages but which > catergory in /etc/syslog.conf does tcpd fall under? %man tpcd //... LOGGING Connections that are monitored by tcpd are reported through the syslog(3) facility. Each record contains a time stamp, the client host name and the name of the requested service. The information can be useful to detect unwanted activities, especially when logfile infor- mation from several hosts is merged. In order to find out where your logs are going, examine the syslog configuration file, usually /etc/syslog.conf. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ //.... %man syslog.conf read again %view syslog.conf read a little more and then it should be clear