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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2000 03:26:26 -0600
From:      Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: inetd -l does not log
Message-ID:  <20000227092627.781.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
In-Reply-To: <38B8E477.1640F67E@gorean.org>
References:  <20000226055117.26471.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <38B8E477.1640F67E@gorean.org>

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<nofill>Doug Barton wrote:
> Gerd Knops wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > man inetd states:
> > 
> > When given the -l option inetd will log an entry to syslog each time a
> > connection is accepted, noting the service selected and the IP-number of
> > the remote requestor if available.
> > 
</nofill>> > On my 3.4 stable system no such thing happens if inetd is started with
the -l flag.
<nofill>
> 
> It does happen, but by default there is nothing in syslog.conf to log
> the daemon facility. That's where it logs if you just just the -l flag.
> If you use either of the -w/W flags it logs to the auth facility. 
> 
> Someone was supposed to have added a note to the man page to this
> effect...
> 
I know that. syslog.conf contains:

!inetd
*.*                                             /dev/console

and rc.conf:

inetd_flags="-w -W"

Still only failed login attempts are logged (I assume by the inetd
internal tcp-wrapper code).

Gerd
</nofill>


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