From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 12:59:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08075 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygnus.rush.net (root@cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08062 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA13834; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:31:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:31:43 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch To: Jeremy Shaffner cc: Brendan Kosowski , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also, on alot of linux distributions tcp-wrappers were installed by default, so therefore logged to a syslog file. On FreeBSD however, you have to install these yourself. it should be in the ports collections somewhere, you need to read the install instructions very carefully however, as you need to add some things to /etc/inetd.conf or replace your original daemon binaries. ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > > > > I was a Linux user but have now changed to FreeBSD. I noticed that with > > Linux, any TELNET or FTP activity was logged to /var/log/messages. > > > > I noticed that FreeBSD does not log TELNET or FTP activity to > > /var/log/messages. > > > > My syslog.conf is very simple : > > > > *.info /var/log/messages > > > > > > This worked fine on Linux. > > > > > > `man ftpd` and `man syslog.conf` > > In inetd.conf the ftpd line should have the following switches: -l -l -S > (The first -l logs anonymous connections, the second -l logs transfers, > and -S logs everything.) > > in syslog.conf: > > #!ftpd > *.* /var/log/ftpd > > You'll need to touch /var/log/ftpd into existance if it doesn't already > exist. You can of course have log to messages instead... > > Not sure about telnet... > > > -===================================================================- > Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet > Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium > jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider > support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com > -===================================================================- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message