Subject: Re: syslog: __progname vs. "service name"
To: Christoph Badura <bad@bsd.de>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/10/2001 22:21:06
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Christoph Badura wrote:

>And I wouldn't want to find the effects of
>  execl("/some/program/that/is/certain/to/syslog",
>        "our sysadmin has a kiddie pr0n archive in /foobar", 0);
>in the log files when I'm digging up evidence for the feds.

Surely

	logger -t "our sysadmin is a wanker" -p mail.crit \
		 "and he keeps lots of pr0n in /pr0ndir"

would be more likely to occur than such an execl dance, no?  Or if not
that, then a program which calls syslog(3)?

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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