Re: syslog

[Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kenneth@bitnisse.dk>]

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 00:16, mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> I have a package, 'oftpd', an anonymous-only, chrooted, setuid-user FTP
> server which uses syslog for logging.  It uses the LOG_FTP facility in
> syslog, which corresponds to the 'ftp.*' line in syslog.conf.  I use
> debconf to setup all the parameters of this server, and I was wondering
> if there was a proper way to set the location of the 'ftp.*' log file.
> I have looked at syslog-facilty, but it only permits the usage of
> the LOCALx facility.  It is feasible to change oftpd to log to LOCALx,
> but I want to know if that's the only way before making changes.
>
> Matthew Danish

As far as I know, if you are using sysklogd, you're stuck with using the 
LOCALx-stuff. However, look in the "syslog-common" package, which contain 
some tools for managing "subscriptions" to LOCALx.

However, I might also be totally wrong :)

Regards
Kenneth