From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 8:41:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8996C37B91B for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA64069; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:46:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:46:54 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: fbsd question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog not looging to file Message-ID: <20000305114654.C62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000305133145.55519.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000305133145.55519.qmail@hotmail.com>; from fbsdq@hotmail.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:31:45PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:31:45PM +0000, fbsd question wrote: > 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 ? Do the files /var/log/ftp.log and /var/log/telnet.log exist? syslogd will not create them. touch(1) them manually if they do not exist. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message