Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980622123809.28872R-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980621152811.6520A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net>
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > I was a Linux user but have now changed to FreeBSD. I noticed that with > Linux, any TELNET or FTP activity was logged to /var/log/messages. > > I noticed that FreeBSD does not log TELNET or FTP activity to > /var/log/messages. > > My syslog.conf is very simple : > > *.info /var/log/messages > > > This worked fine on Linux. > > `man ftpd` and `man syslog.conf` In inetd.conf the ftpd line should have the following switches: -l -l -S (The first -l logs anonymous connections, the second -l logs transfers, and -S logs everything.) in syslog.conf: #!ftpd *.* /var/log/ftpd You'll need to touch /var/log/ftpd into existance if it doesn't already exist. You can of course have log to messages instead... Not sure about telnet... -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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