Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On 9/15/06, Joachim Schipper <j.schipper <at> math.uu.nl> wrote: > > Certainly, daemons chrooted in /var/empty won't be able to use syslog > > and there will be something wrong with cron (maybe the notification to > > re-read changed crontabs?). > > Bunk! > > Syslogd will create extra/alternate sockets when it starts up, > provided that you tell it to do so with "-a". And cron will create its > notification socket. Both of these behaviours can be found by a quick > grep in the source, and the syslogd manpage explicitly mentions the > use of "-a" to put log sockets in chroot jails. > > CK >
Thanks all for your help - CK is right, I deleted the files in question from my original /var directory to be sure, upon reboot the files are rebuilt automatically are are there when browsing /var - sorry I jumped to conclusions and didn't look at that sooner. As it stands I think I'm okay...
