Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

[Russell Nelson]

Balazs Nagy writes:
 > IMHO the technology behind qmail logging is wrong.  These inetd-controlled
 > services cannot use stderr for logging (as tcpserver), and none of DJB's
 > software use syslog. Therefore no logging is applied to these softwares.

That's why you don't use inetd.  Inetd is stupid.  Syslog is stupid.
A lot of BSD facilities are stupid.

 > Anyone who say 'when a connection is made it's enough to log it's remote ip
 > number' is wrong.  A customer of mine wanted to log the time, remote IP,
 > password checking failure, status informations about any POP3 connections
 > just because they wanted to track down their would-be hacker employees.
 > It was just a bit of hack in the source code.
 > 
 > But here?  Here is no way to do it.

Write a checkpassword which logs to stderr.

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