I know precious little about proftpd, but most daemons allow you to specify what log facility to use. The ftp facility is not widely used/implemented. local facilities, however, are POSIX and available on Solaris*. See man 3 syslog in your nearest Solaris|Linux system
* Checked on Solaris 10 Hope that helps, ~Steven On 2/16/06, Scott Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a brain dead afternoon with syslog.conf on Solaris 9. I'm > starting up pure-ftpd as a standalone daemon as the root user and the > errors from the application are dumping into /var/adm/messages rather > than it's own log file where I'd like for it go. 'man syslog.conf' > shows me my choices for facilities are user, kern, mail, > daemon,auth,lpr and news. So ftp or local2 do not seem to be choices > to redirect. What should syslog.conf be to redirect the error > messages of pure-ftpd to its own file? > > Here's my /etc/syslog.conf > > *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit /var/adm/messages > *.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator > *.alert > root > *.emerg * > > # portions i've added > # user processes > user.err / > var/adm/user > > # daemon proceses > daemon.err /var/ > adm/daemon > > and still I get in /var/log/messages > > Feb 16 15:30:30 wssun2 pure-ftpd: [ID 383463 local2.error] (? > @selundgr-pc.$WORK.$DOMAIN) [ERROR] The SQL server seems to be down > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
