Disabling ftpd logging to syslog

[emx]

Our syslog.log contains messages like this every few seconds:
May 29 00:45:11 smsc1 ftpd[15385]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5
May 29 00:45:12 smsc1 ftpd[15391]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5
May 29 00:45:17 smsc1 ftpd[15413]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5
May 29 00:45:17 smsc1 ftpd[15419]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5
May 29 00:45:22 smsc1 ftpd[15441]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5
May 29 00:45:23 smsc1 ftpd[15447]: allowed connection from 10.131.22.5

I would like to disable this logging as it fills up syslog.log

Problem is... logging is not enabled! So how does this happen? Your hints would be most welcome!

emx@smsc1 /var/adm/syslog> grep ftp /etc/inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/tcpd /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd

emx@smsc1 /var/adm/syslog> ps -ef|grep inetd
root 3359 1 0 Mar 31 ? 27:54 /usr/sbin/inetd

I have tried to execute "inetd -l" (thinking it would toggle logging) but it made things worse by adding an extra
May 29 00:44:19 smsc1 inetd[15068]: ftp/tcp: Connection from unknown (10.131.22.5) at Thu May 29 00:44:19 2008

So it isn't "-l" in inetd.

It isn't "-l" in ftpd in inetd.conf either

Any idea??

[Geoff Wild]

In inetd.conf:

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/tcpd /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l


Then inetd -c

Rgds...Geoff

[emx]

Thanks Geoff but I want to DISABLE logging, not ENABLE it.

From ftpd man page:

-l Causes each FTP session to be logged in the syslog file.

[emx]

Found it!

The problem was due to TCP Wrappers being installed (the "tcpd" in my inetd.conf ftpd line)

I removed "/usr/lbin/tcpd" (as it wasn't used anyway) and restarted inetd.

No more annoying syslog messages.

[emx]

The logging was not caused by syslog or ftpd, it was caused by tcpd (TCPWrappers).

Removing tcpd solved the problem. If we need to enable access control, we'll use inetd.sec instead.