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DateMon, 4 Aug 2003 01:19:27 -0400
FromBen Collins <>
SubjectRe: chroot() breaks syslog() ?
> connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
> 
> Is this intentional? If so, is there a work-around? I discovered this when
> debugging 'rwhod', but I imagine there are many more utils that would be
> affected too.

I don't know how it ever did work, if in fact it did for you. /dev/log
is not a kernel device, it's just a normal socket created by syslogd.

Now, if you use devfs, and mount devfs under the chroot, it magically
propogates /dev/log. But that's not the normal thing.

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