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Re: chroot question: Hardlinks or softlinks

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 06:59:22 CST


* Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org>:
> Ralf Hildebrandt:
> > * Cami <camismweb.co.za>:
> >
> > > Don't let files outside your chroot have any type of
> > > interaction with files inside your chroot.. Keep them
> > > seperate.
> >
> > What about sockets? Lke syslogd listening in and outside the jail?
>
> You can give Postfix its own chrooted syslog socket.

I know, I was just talking about the security implications.

> Depending on your syslogd implementation:
>
> syslogd -l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/log
> syslogd -a /var/spool/postfix/var/run/log
>
> And so on.

Of course I forgot to setup this here...

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