Re: honeyd0.8b not logging to syslog

[Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>]

Honeyd does not log connections to Syslog unless you start it in debug
mode with -d.  A busy honeyd can generate a lot of logging
information, so it seems better to not bother systrace with it.

Niels.

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:49:31PM -0500, Jeff Kloet wrote:
>  I've started honeyd with root privileges ( -u 0 -g 0 ) and even set
> '/var/log/messages' permissions to 666 ... still no connection messages
> showing up in /var/log/messages.  I'm perplexed.
>  
> Jeff
>
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> Subject: Re: honeyd0.8b not logging to syslog
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>
> Jeff, I haven't honeyd0.8b. But I would checked the effecty user of
> henyd0.8b, and who can write to syslog's file. You checked it sure, but
> it's the first thing i do.
>  
> Bye
>
>
> Jeff Kloet <jkloet () toromont com> wrote:
>
>
>
>       I have honeyd0.8b up and running on RedHat 9.0 with a simple
> configuration... it listens on unused address space and opens a
> connection for any udp/tcp/imcp traffic hitting that address space.
>       
>       All is well except that honeyd does not log the connections to
> syslog. It does log them to a file and it does log honeyd startup
> information to syslog.
>       
>       Ideas?
>       
>       Thanks
>       Jeff K
>       
>       
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