[patch] busybox-1.14.1 ftpd: make -vv -S more useful

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Thu Jun 4 17:37:24 UTC 2009


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Stefan Seyfried <seife at suse.de> wrote:
>> It's actually a bad idea to log verbose output to stdout,
>> so if syslog is enabled, only use syslog.
> 
> We log it to stderr. Why is it a bad idea?

It gets transmitted to the ftp client and not logged to the stderr of inetd
(this might be an inetd problem, don't know) and the ftp clients get confused
by the protocol violation.

Best regards,

	Stefan
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