I have a debian sarge 3.1 2.6 stable and i have installed portsentry with APT .I want portsentry to have a separate log file but the only documentation i have found related to this subject it is about portsentry.tar.gz where you have to modify a Makefile to rich this,if i'm not wrong!How can i have separate LOGS for portsentry?Then i wanted to ask what is the point for portsentry to list dynamic ips in tcpwrappers?

Grazie!

I answer to myself cause i read a related topic it's obvious i have to go and modify syslod.conf how shall i call portsentry to mention it in syslog.conf ?A sort of local/n !What's the proper way of doing it?
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i have to go and modify syslod.conf how shall i call portsentry to mention it in syslog.conf ?
Yes, you'll have to recompile Portsentry to use the a syslog facility (LOCAL).
Then find a free "local" facility slot in your /etc/syslog.conf where n is between zero and 7. Example:
local7.*<TAB><TAB>/var/log/portsentry.log
Make sure you honour tab usage equally to the rest of your syslog.conf lines. Restart syslog. Ready.


* BTW, there's not much software I would advice against using, but Portsentry sure is one application that is deprecated: use Snort. If you want to know more details please search this forum for posts I made plus the term portsentry.

How do i compile it if i have installed portsentry with APT ?It would not be enough just to mension the local/n in syslog.conf !

How do i compile it if i have installed portsentry with APT ?
Like manually? Download sourcecode tarball from Sourceforge.

I wish doing it on the one i already have installed ...