Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 01:26:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bill@wagill.com (Bill) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bin/1559 Message-ID: <199610242326.BAA04921@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961024181424.006a489c@mail.nas.com> from Bill at "Oct 24, 96 11:14:24 am"
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As Bill wrote:
> >No, they are truly info's only. Failed login attempts are notices.
> >
> >Adding ftp.* to the default syslogd.conf (and to newsyslog.conf) is
> >IMHO the politically correct way.
>
> Okay, well, then at least the man page for ftpd should be updated to
> indicate that the sys admin must add 'ftp.info' to the syslog.conf file for
> the '-l' and '-ll' switches to work.
No, adding ftp.* does already include this. The output should go to
/var/log/ftp.log.
> The man page presently is misleading in that simply adding '-l' or '-ll' to
> the ftp entry in the inetd.conf file will NOT cause the desired effect of
> logging ftp activity.
It doesn't actually claim this:
`` -l Each successful and failed ftp(1) session is logged using syslog
with a facility of LOG_FTP.''
But i agree, it requires a somewhat seasoned system administrator to
notice that several of the LOG_FTP messages might not be logged by
default. That's why i think there should be a default entry for
ftp.*.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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