Re: Honeyd 0.8b bugs and arpd crashing the access to the wireless network

Hi Malek,

> Honeyd 0.8b is not logging information using the -l command. We have tried
> it many times even the use of ">>" or | tee on Linux Red Hat 9.0 is not

I was scratching my head over the same issue half an hour ago. I found
that honeyd creates its logfile writable by "root" only, but it runs as
"nobody" (on OpenBSD 3.4/i386 here). This seems to inhibit writes to the
logfile.

As a workaround, create the logfile before starting honeyd, and change
the logfile owner to "nobody" (or whatever honeyd runs as). This
did the trick, you should see a message "<time> honeyd log started --".
Without the chown I would always get an empty logfile, not even the
"started" line.

ciao,
chakl

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