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Date:      Tue, 6 May 1997 21:50:37 -0400
From:      John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
To:        Dev Chanchani <dev@wopr.inetu.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Syslogd/Chroot() Questions.
Message-ID:  <19970506215037.34284@irbs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970505213619.10297A-100000@wopr.inetu.net>; from Dev Chanchani on Mon, May 05, 1997 at 09:38:55PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970505213619.10297A-100000@wopr.inetu.net>

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Quoting Dev Chanchani (dev@wopr.inetu.net):
> I have questions about syslog in regards to programs that are chroot'ed.
> Can I just create another chroot()'ed syslog.conf and point everything
> back to the main server via udp? Should I run another syslogd and tell it to create
> its local socket in /chroot/dev/log and not bind to a udp port again?
> 

I had occasion to use a chrooted syslogd recently.  I modifed
syslogd.c to not bind a udp socket or open /dev/klog.  I let it
create /dev/log in the chrooted space.  Worked fine.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering




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