[TriLUG] syslog.conf

[Steven Blanchard]

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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