cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:36 AM +0000 3/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>pjd         2006-03-06 10:36:33 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/syslogd     syslogd.8 syslogd.c
>   Log:
>   By default (for security reasons) syslogd(8) doesn't create
>   log files when they don't exist, but sometimes its quite
>   useful (eg. we use non-standard log files and memory backed
>   /var/, which is populated on boot).
>
>   Add -C option which tells syslogd(8) to create log files if
>   they don't exist.

Hmm.  Note that newsyslog includes an option to automatically
create files. Presumably the log files created by syslogd would
need to be rotated, in which case they'll already have entries
in newsyslog.conf.

The advantage of creating them in newsyslog is that newsyslog
knows what owner, group, and chmod bits the files should have.
I would not say that I object to the idea of having this option
in syslogd, but I'd think people would be much better off using
newsyslog to create any of the files.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu