[693] in WWW Security List Archive
syslog logging in CERN httpd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Clapper)
Fri May 12 18:04:50 1995
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:23:01 -0400
From: Brian Clapper <bmc@telebase.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
CC: bmc@telebase.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
For those who are using CERN's httpd on Unix systems, there's a patch
available to permit it to log through Unix syslog(3).
Normally, the CERN httpd daemon does not support logging through the Unix
syslog daemon (syslogd). For various reasons, I needed to have our version
of the daemon log through syslog, so I modified the vanilla CERN httpd
source code to: (a) permit it to log through the syslog(3) interface, and
(b) permit a syslog facility to be specified in the httpd configuration
file.
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org> has kindly given me permission to
release the patch that implements this change. It's available via
anonymous ftp from "ftp.telebase.com" in directory "/pub/cern-httpd". (If
your name server cannot resolve "ftp.telebase.com", try
"userver0.telebase.com". "ftp.telebase.com" is a recent CNAME entry in our
name service, and your name server may not yet have picked up the changes.)
The patch itself is wrapped in a gzip'd shell archive (shar) file,
"syslog-changes.shar.gz", contained in that directory.
Brian Clapper
bmc@telebase.com
