[BusyBox] bug#1082: Remote syslogd also logs locally
Matthew Franz
mfranz at cisco.com
Tue Nov 21 17:06:06 UTC 2000
> Package: busybox
> Version: 0.47
> Severity: normal
>
> When using syslogd in remote mode, it also logs to /var/log/messages.
> This is bad because remote syslog is commonly used in diskless embedded
> systems which don't have any local storage for the log file apart from a
> small ram disk.
>
I ran into this problem on Trinux and tried the following workarounds,
before adopting #2
1) link /var/log/messages to /dev/null (I believe this worked)
2) Use logrotate (the stripped binary is 42k and well worth it)
-mdf
Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit
http://trinux.sourceforge.net
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