Re: [Proftpd-user] Lost Log messages relating to MaxClientsPerUser

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> What I see in the code is that proftpd isn't using the syslog API call.
>   It is instead using the pr_log_openfile function, which uses the open
> API call thus returning a file descriptor.  That descriptor should be
> independent of the descriptor a PAM module opens via the syslog API
> call, right?

ProFTPD does not _always_ use pr_log_openfile().  There are several
logging functions in ProFTPD's logging API.  And unless you've configured
a SystemLog, the logging API will default to using a wrapper around the
normal syslog API.

TJ

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