[TriLUG] syslog.conf

[Steven Blanchard]

%s/proftpd/pure-ftpd/g

... speaking of brain dead

~Steven

On 2/16/06, Steven Blanchard <sgblanch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know precious little about proftpd, but most daemons allow you to
> specify what log   facility to use.  The ftp facility is not widely
> used/implemented. local  facilities, however, are POSIX and available
> on Solaris*.  See man 3 syslog in your nearest Solaris|Linux system
>
> * Checked on Solaris 10
>
> Hope that helps,
> ~Steven
>
> On 2/16/06, Scott Lundgren <trilug at capitalfellow.com> wrote:
> > I'm having a brain dead afternoon with syslog.conf on Solaris 9. I'm
> > starting up pure-ftpd as a standalone daemon as the root user and the
> > errors from the application are dumping into /var/adm/messages rather
> > than it's own log file where I'd like for it go. 'man syslog.conf'
> > shows me my choices for facilities are user, kern, mail,
> > daemon,auth,lpr and news. So ftp or local2 do not seem to be choices
> > to redirect. What should syslog.conf be to redirect the error
> > messages of pure-ftpd to its own file?
> >
> > Here's my /etc/syslog.conf
> >
> > *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit      /var/adm/messages
> > *.alert;kern.err;daemon.err                              operator
> > *.alert
> >    root
> > *.emerg                                                               *
> >
> > # portions i've added
> > # user processes
> > user.err                                                               /
> > var/adm/user
> >
> > # daemon proceses
> > daemon.err                                                       /var/
> > adm/daemon
> >
> > and still I get in /var/log/messages
> >
> > Feb 16 15:30:30 wssun2 pure-ftpd: [ID 383463 local2.error] (?
> > @selundgr-pc.$WORK.$DOMAIN) [ERROR] The SQL server seems to be down
> >
> >
> >
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