Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:58:21 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: Barnett Hsu <barnett@engr.ucr.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su isn't logging via syslog Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.21.0004261355430.61336-100000@inca.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GS4.4.21.0004261016520.8144-100000@brigid.ucr.edu>
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Barnett Hsu wrote: % It is my understanding that su logs via the syslog % auth and authpriv facilities. However, I've tried % auth.*, authpriv.*, auth.info, and auth.notice in % syslog.conf on some FreeBSD systems (ranging from % version 2.2 through 4.0) and su attempts don't % show up in the log, even if the attempt was % unsuccessful. su attempts don't show up when I % tried *.* as well. % % What could be the problem? % This is how I've set syslog.conf: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /var/log/stdout.log *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog auth.info /var/log/auth.log ftp.info /var/log/ftp.log All info regarding su gets written to /var/log/auth.log. I think this file requires tab key seperators as well. --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ William J. Melanson CyberGate, Inc. | e.spire Communications Sr Network Controller www.gate.net ---- www.espire.net Network Operations Center Phone: (954) 334-8080 finger wjm@gate.net PGP public key --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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