[syslog-ng]Running Syslog-ng chrooted

[foob@return0.net]

/dev/log isnt a device.  its created by syslog to capture
messages that programs send to.  to chroot syslog, wouldnt
you need to adjust the path and recompile all programs
that call syslog()?

sys/syslog.h:
#define _PATH_LOG       "/dev/log"

If / and /usr/jail are on the same physical partition, maybe you
could hardlink.

Interested if you get anywhere with this... incidentally, is syslog
going to be running as root in the chroot?  I dont suppose it 
has to...

- foob

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jon Marks wrote:

> Can you move the device file over to /usr/jail/syslog/dev/log and symlink
> it from /dev/log? That way, programs can still find it (if they don't
> care about a symlink), but it's living beneath the syslog-ng root. 
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:52:00PM +0200, Kaladis wrote:
> > Dear Mailinglistpeoples,
> > 
> > First of all I'd appreciate it if you could cc all replies to kaladis@gmx.de
> > since I'm not a member of this mailing list.
> > 
> > I am trying to run syslog-ng chrooted - to be accurate, from
> > /usr/jail/syslog. I created /usr/sbin/syslog-ng, created all directories and
> > so on, copied the needed libraries etc. Syslog-ng is starting quite fine
> > within that chrooted environment as user syslog group syslog. However it is
> > not logging anything. I guess that it must have to do with /dev/log since
> > that isn't accesiable out of that environment anymore. Now I'm asking myself
> > how I could have /dev/log under /usr/jail/syslog/dev/log or what else the
> > problem could be.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help
> > 
> > - Kaladis
> > 
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