On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Has anyone investigated what would be necessary to get a non-root > syslogd working under Debian? It seems like this would be a good > thing, but obviously there have to be some tricky bits, else it would > have happened already. :)
> Is this worth working on? Has anybody already done this? If you are interested, take a look at the socklog package, a replacement for sysklogd that already does this. It even uses separate uids for the listener process and the process writing logs to disk. Regards, Gerrit. -- Open projects at http://smarden.org/pape/.