syslogd questions

[eric at worldmachine.com (Eric J. Hansen)]

Hi folks,

two issues with syslogd and syslog.conf on Linux 1.2.13:

1.  I've got my syslog.conf file set up to split log messages into a few
files.  I changed this from the default file that Slackware 2.2 installed:

*.*                                             /var/adm/syslog
local4.*                                        /var/adm/thttpdlog
mail.*                                          /var/adm/smtplog

The idea here is that *all* messages go to 'syslog', WWW server messages go
to 'thttpdlog', and sendmail messages go to 'smtplog'.  Well this all
works fine, but I'm still getting telnet, rlogin and ftp messages to
the 'smtplog' log - i.e., the seem to be matching the LOG_MAIL facility.
Why is this?  These are all inetd handled... shouldn't they just default to
the 'syslog' file?

2.  Has anyone had problems with syslogd hanging after a while?  It seems
like I periodically have to bounce it because it stops logging any messages
at all.

Thanks,
Eric Hansen
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