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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2009-03-11 15:07:44 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2009-03-11 15:07:44 +0000
commit4221e90ae468acc4b6c43faa36aee5160d2738c6 (patch)
treef9a100c67f7aff66cd948d6e85fa8bca6ac684ff /docs
parenta19e64933c600b7f05232ad80bb5db85c115e42d (diff)
downloadbusybox-4221e90ae468acc4b6c43faa36aee5160d2738c6.tar.gz
ftpd: stop unconditional logging to syslog. This was the only applet
which was doing it. Added option -S to enable it when desired. function old new delta packed_usage 25647 25666 +19 ftpd_main 1826 1825 -1
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt b/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
index 39f015883..62a6d1550 100644
--- a/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
+++ b/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
@@ -27,18 +27,16 @@ acpid - auto-backgrounds unless -d
crond - auto-backgrounds unless -f, logs to syslog unless -d or -L.
option -d logs to stderr, -L FILE logs to FILE
devfsd - (obsolete)
-dnsd - option -d makes it auto-background and log to syslog
+dnsd - option -d makes it background and log to syslog
fakeidentd - inetd service. Auto-backgrounds and logs to syslog
if no -f and no -i and no -w (-i is "inetd service" flag,
-w is "inetd-wait service" flag)
-ftpd - inetd service. Logs to syslog always, with -v logs to strerr too
-httpd - auto-backgrounds unless -f or -i
- (-i is "inetd service" flag)
+ftpd - inetd service. Logs to syslog with -S, with -v logs to strerr too
+httpd - auto-backgrounds unless -f or -i (-i is "inetd service" flag)
inetd - auto-backgrounds unless -f, logs to syslog unless -e
klogd - auto-backgrounds unless -n
syslogd - auto-backgrounds unless -n
-telnetd - auto-backgrounds unless -f or -i
- (-i is "inetd service" flag)
+telnetd - auto-backgrounds unless -f or -i (-i is "inetd service" flag)
udhcpc - auto-backgrounds unless -f after lease is obtained,
option -b makes it background sooner (when lease attempt
fails and retries start),
@@ -48,9 +46,18 @@ udhcpd - auto-backgrounds and do not log to stderr unless -f,
otherwise logs to stderr, but option -S makes it log *also* to syslog
zcip - auto-backgrounds and logs *also* to syslog unless -f
+Total: 13 applets (+1 obsolete),
+ 4 log to syslog by default (crond fakeidentd inetd zcip),
+ 5 never log to syslog (acpid httpd telnetd klogd syslogd, last two
+ - for obviously correct reasons),
+ there are no daemons which always log to syslog,
+ 12 auto-background if not run as inetd servies (all except dnsd.
+ Note that there is no "standard" dnsd AFAIKS). But see below
+ for daemons (tcpsvd etc) which don't auto-background.
+
miscutils/crond.c: logmode = LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
networking/dnsd.c: logmode = LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
-networking/ftpd.c: logmode = LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
+networking/ftpd.c: logmode = LOGMODE_NONE;
networking/ftpd.c: logmode |= LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
networking/inetd.c: logmode = LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
networking/isrv_identd.c: logmode = LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
@@ -63,7 +70,7 @@ networking/udhcp/dhcpd.c: logmode |= LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
networking/zcip.c: logmode |= LOGMODE_SYSLOG;
-These daemons seem to never auto-background/log to syslog:
+These daemons never auto-background and never log to syslog:
lpd - inetd service. Has nothing to log so far, though
dhcprelay - standard behavior