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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: syslogd and inn 1.5.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:35:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5j8ieh$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ragn6ci0.fsf@pcrown.net> <gergE88sCD.E9t@netcom.com> <iv1z71wa.fsf@pcrown.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39322 Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> wrote: > > Syslogd doesn't create files at startup time or when it gets a HUP > > signal. It only opens the ones that already exist. At least, that's > > the way syslogd has been in all the Unixes I've worked on. > > Try syslogd that ships with RedHat Linux v4.1, it creates the files > after the HUP signal. It also logs that syslogd was restarted (not > sure where, mine ends up in /var/log/messages). The syslogd restart is logged on any BSD version, too. However, it's logged at facility.level `syslog.info', and FreeBSD's default syslog.conf only records everything with level `notice' (one higher than `info') and above in /var/log/messages. You are free to change this. If RedHat's syslogd creates files, and you've bought this system, file them a bug report. This is a security hole (since there's no way you can tell syslogd about the owner/group/permissions of the created file). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)