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From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com>
Subject: Re: ftpd filling /var/adm/syslog
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:14:26 GMT
References: <2di96.3017$vw3.130@client> 

Scott Myerscough propounded (on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:51:08AM -0500):
| OS: SCO 5.05 5.06
| 
| Does anyone know how to stop the ftpd from logging to the syslog.
| My customer's syslogs are filling up with: ftpd [PID] QUIT.
| We are "ftping" files every 30 seconds and therefore the syslog fills
| quickly. I tried editing the syslog.conf in the same manner that you can
| stop the mail popper from logging to the syslog ie. mail.none however
| ftpd.none doesn't cut it ....

Unfortunately nothing in the ftpd man page specifies which syslog
facility is being used by SCO's ftpd.  You have two choices:

        Do not use '*' anywhere in syslog.conf, and start specifying
        every facility/loglevel pair you want in syslog.  This will take
        a good deal of experimentation.

or

        Compile wu-ftpd yourself.  I did so specifying the local7
        facility, and my syslog.conf file has:

                ## wu-ftpd      compiled to use Facility = local7
                local7.notice           /usr/adm/ftplog

-- 
JP

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