Re: [Jailkit-users] Login failure

[Olivier Sessink]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 3:14 pm, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> > Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > > Olivier,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply.  I changed permissions in several locations,
> > > based on your post.  Now, when I try to log in, the connection still
> > > terminates immediately, but there are no errors reported in syslog.
> > do you have logging inside the jail enabled? either with syslog or with
> > jk_socketd ?
> >
> > regards,
> >         Olivier
>
> Well, I have the correct directives in in /etc/jailkit/jk_socketd.ini:
>
> [/home/sftproot/dev/log]
> base=512
> peek=2048
> interval=10

but is jk_socketd running? try `ps ax|grep jk_socketd`

> But, if I try to tail the log file, I get:
>
> tail: cannot open '/home/sftproot/dev/log' for reading: No such device or 
> address

it is not a logfile, that is the socket to which programs write their 
log messages, and jk_socketd copies those log messages to the real 
/dev/log, so they end up in your normal logfiles.

regards,
        Olivier