>>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:51 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Back in the day at the recommendation of the 'Lpar to virtual server' > redbook, I did the bastille hardening which appended this to syslog.conf
Mike et. al. recommended Bastille? I didn't think much of anyone did that any more. -snip- > So this is clearly why syslog has /dev/tty7, 8 and 12 allocated. You can have the same level of logging, just point them to real files in /var/log/ somewhere. > the problem exists on the golden mastet structure on my cloning system and > every linux derived from it, so I suspect the damage was done a long time > ago, back when I knew considerably less than I do now. -snip- > THe question is.. how do I re-create these device entries so that the are not > regular files anymore? Change your /etc/syslog.conf. Shut down syslog. Do an "rm /dev/tty7 /dev/tty8 /dev/tty12". Then: mknod -m 620 /dev/tty7 c 4 7 mknod -m 620 /dev/tty8 c 4 8 mknod -m 620 /dev/tty12 c 4 12 chown root:tty rm /dev/tty7 /dev/tty8 /dev/tty12 Then restart syslog. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
