- djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2008/07/14 01:55:56

     [sftp-server.8]
     mention requirement for /dev/log inside chroot when using sftp-server
     with ChrootDirectory

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be9ea981ed44107272ca0855e262b70679bae41e..e5fbdb37d22eaf9627c9ba3ac082cdd88cda794d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
      increase number of piplelined requests so they properly fill the
      (recently increased) channel window. prompted by rapier AT psc.edu;
      ok markus@
+   - djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2008/07/14 01:55:56
+     [sftp-server.8]
+     mention requirement for /dev/log inside chroot when using sftp-server
+     with ChrootDirectory
  - (djm) [openbsd-compat/bindresvport.c] Rename variables s/sin/in/ to
    avoid clash with sin(3) function; reported by
    cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com

diff --git a/sftp-server.8 b/sftp-server.8
index ee13ee18d6ee133eee0418bb6a4f31b8c890effe..cefbebbdf33208e96e441ee6a4909e46a089fdc5 100644 (file)
--- a/sftp-server.8
+++ b/sftp-server.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sftp-server.8,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:20:16 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sftp-server.8,v 1.13 2008/07/14 01:55:56 djm Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Markus Friedl.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent.
 DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.
 The default is ERROR.
 .El
+.Pp
+For logging to work,
+.Nm
+must be able to access
+.Pa /dev/log .
+Use of
+.Nm
+in a chroot configuation therefore requires that
+.Xr syslogd 8
+establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.
+.Pp
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr sftp 1 ,
 .Xr ssh 1 ,