[H-GEN] /dev/log inside a chroot

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David Jericho wrote:

davidj> A lot of applications obviously write to /dev/log as
davidj> opposed to using udp based syslog logging.  But inside a
davidj> chroot, the new /dev/log isn't the same as the old
davidj> /dev/log that syslog has opened.
davidj> 
davidj> How do I go about fixing this? That is, getting the
davidj> chrooted version of /dev/log to work?

As long as the device is created with the appropriate major and minor
numbers as the true /dev/log, messages written to /chroot/dev/log (ugh)
should turn up in the global syslog.

The path that can be typed is not the true Path .

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