----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: tcpserver logging
> "Keith Warno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> "Keith Warno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
> >> > 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> >> >
> >> >Um ok, the uid and gid are diff on my box :> So's the qmail path but
> >other
> >> >than that it's a cut/paste and msgs are getting blurted out to the
> >terminal.
> >>
> >> Odds are good that you're using a shell that doesn't use the "2>&1"
> >> syntax to redirect stderr to stdout.
> >>
> >> -Dave
> >
> >If it were that easy I would have spotted it, even at 230am :)
> >
> >The shell is bash.
>
> OK, pardon me. So what to the messages you see look like? Is anything
> going to syslog? What does:
>
> echo foo | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
>
> do? Facility 3 is (usually?) daemon. Check /usr/include/sys/syslog.h.
> Leave it off, and splogger will default to 2 (mail), which is probably
> what you want.
>
> -Dave
It turned out to be a minor goof in the rc script. I spelled a variable
wrong. These things happen during the wee hours of the AM :)
Sorry about that; thanks for your help.
kw
