Fwd: SSHD logging on Solaris 8?

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2002-10-08 12:52:00 -0700 dixit Eric N. Valor:

: Sorry to send this to the wrong list.  But it appears that the
: general list is mostly utilized as a SPAM vector and/or is absentee
: moderated (the message has yet to make it to the archives, despite
: being dated days earlier than messages which are there).

General list?  What general list?  I didn't know there was one for
OpenSSH....

  [...]

: >I've parsed the archives and found nothing speaking to my issue.
: >I'm using OpenSSH on Solaris 8, from the package available from 
: >SunFreeware.  Yes, I plan to go back and roll my own from scratch
: >but I'm in a hurry right now.
: >
: >Anyway, while debugging a login problem I was frustrated by the
: >lack of logging in /var/*.  The only "logging" I was able to see
: >was by executing "ssh -v" -- nowhere on the remote system (running
: >the daemon) did I find *ANY* logging whatsoever.  The sshd_config
: >manpage has nothing about specifying a logfile, and none of the
: >logging settings I tried did anything.

I was never really able to get sshd to log anything via Solaris 8's
syslogd either, and i did my own OpenSSH build.  I prefer running sshd
with djb's daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) anyway, so i
simply have sshd log to stderr using '-e' and log via multilog.

: >Is this a problem specific with Solaris (I'm a Linux guy in normal 
: >circumstances), with the package from SunFreeware, or with OpenSSH
: >itself?

No idea.  My knowledge of Solaris 8 quirks is pretty much limited to
having recently done a fairly stock install, reading man pages, and the
fine book by Æleen Frisch with the armadillo on the front....

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