On Wed, 22 May 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Well, this machine looks really standart. pptp doesn't send a lot of
> data to syslog, does it ?

A lot of messages occurs when the client is win98se and the patch
of microsoft. Millenium and XP works fine and the clients are
of these.

> I think we really need a core dump from syslogd (kill -ABRT) to have
> more infos.

Yes, I am ready... Thanks Manuel.

Heron Gallegos
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Program to kill syslogd when you are a *simple user*
#include        <signal.h>
#include        <stdio.h>
#define         PIDFILE "/var/run/syslogd.pid"

main () {
        int spid; /* syslogd PID */
        int getspid();

        spid = getspid ();
        if (kill(spid, SIGABRT) != 0) {
                fprintf(stderr, "No pude matar syslogd\n");
                exit(0);
        }
        fprintf(stdout, "Core file is /syslogd.core\n");
}

int getspid () {
        FILE *fp;
        int  num;

        if ((fp = fopen(PIDFILE, "r")) == NULL) {
                fprintf(stderr, "No pude abrir %s\n", PIDFILE);
                exit(0);
        }
        if (fscanf(fp, "%d\n", &num) != 1) {
                fprintf(stderr, "No pude leer %s\n", PIDFILE);
                fclose(fp);
                exit(0);
        }
        fclose(fp);
        return(num);
}

And dont forget chown root your program
and chmod 4755

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  staff  5783 May 19 19:14 mata
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   593 May 19 19:14 mata.c

... It works fine