syslog + chroot + ftpd

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <LUIS.90Jul27181155 at lutetia.rice.edu> luis at lutetia.rice.edu (Luis Soltero) writes:
  [ on a Sun ]
> has anyone noticed that syslog stops logging when ftpd logs in an
> anonymous ftp user?

syslog's poor model has ftp writing to a UNIX-domain socket in the
filesystem. Naturally, ftp can't find the file after it chroots. Try
hardlinking in a new /dev/log (I think) below ftp's home directory.

If error messages were piped out stderr to an error-handling program,
these problems would never happen.

---Dan