Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:58:27 -0500 From: James Alexander Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> To: David Banning <david+dated+1109486127.c1b9c8@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging proftpd question Message-ID: <20050222175827.GA36707@angel.falsifian.afraid.org> In-Reply-To: <20050222063525.GA4636@skytracker.ca> References: <20050222063525.GA4636@skytracker.ca>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:35:25AM -0500, David Banning wrote: > Presently all my proftpd logging goes to /var/log/messages but > it is clogging that file because I have an ftp login every couple of > minutes. I want to redirect proftpd logging. I tried putting > > proftpd:* /var/log/proftpd.log > > in my /etc/syslog.conf > > but syslogd complains; > syslogd: unknown facility name "proftpd" > > looking at the man page for proftpd is says; > > Each successful and failed ftp(1) session is logged using syslog with a > facility of LOG_FTP. Note: LOG_FTP messages are not displayed by sys- > logd(8) by default, and may have to be enabled in syslogd(8)'s configu- > ration file. > > > So I tried; > > LOG_FTP:* /var/log/proftpd.log > > still no go. > > I am unfamiliar with logging. Can someone help me along here? > > -- $ man syslog.conf <snip> The facility describes the part of the system generating the message, and is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, console, cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp and local0 through local7. These keywords (with the exception of mark) cor- respond to similar ``LOG_'' values specified to the openlog(3) and syslog(3) library routines. <snip> I believe the syntax you want is ftp.* /var/log/proftpd.log Make sure the logfile exists (and is writable), otherwise I think syslog will complain. - James Cook james.cook@utoronto.ca
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