[syslog-ng] Chroot jails

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:19:00 +0200


> Would I be right in thinking that Syslog-ng's ability to use multiple
> message sources could be useful in building chroot jails on Linux, e.g.
> would source src { unix-stream /dev/log; /chroot/named/dev/log; internal; };
> work in place of using holelogd?

Yes. But a bit different syntax:

source src { unix-stream /dev/log; unix-stream /chroot/named/dev/log; ... };

Or each could have a distinct source:

source syssrc { unix-stream /dev/log; internal; };
source namedsrc { unix-stream /chroot/named/dev/log; };

and so on.

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