Syslogd on panther

[William H. Magill]

Ok... what version of syslogd is Apple using under Panther?

Strings claim it is:
    8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93
but it is not even close to the version documented in the man page:

/usr/sbin/syslogd -?
usage: syslogd [-46Acdknosuv] [-a allowed_peer]
                [-b bind address] [-f config_file]
                [-l log_socket] [-m mark_interval]
                [-P pid_file] [-p log_socket]

It is launched with an undocumented flag "-s", and in general does not 
work "correctly" -- that is as I expect syslogd from previous versions 
(and other Unix).

One problem is that it generates errors if the log file does not 
pre-exist instead of opening the file.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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