{"id":8,"date":"2005-03-07T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/2005\/03\/08\/php-error-logging-to-syslog-from-a-chroot\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T03:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:51:03","slug":"php-error-logging-to-syslog-from-a-chroot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdown.de\/articles\/php-error-logging-to-syslog-from-a-chroot\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Error Logging to syslog from a chroot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little trick to log PHP<\/a> errors to syslog from an apache<\/a> chroot. Instead of creating a $CHROOT\/dev\/log<\/code> socket in the chroot and configuring syslog to listen on that, just define a bogus virtual host that logs to syslog.<\/p>\n

\r\n<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>\r\n        ServerName JustForOpeningSyslog\r\n        Redirect permanent \/ http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/\r\n        ErrorLog syslog\r\n<\/VirtualHost><\/pre>\n
Now apache calls openlog(3)<\/code> with LOG_NDELAY<\/code> before being chrooted by libapache2-mod-chroot, and libapache2-mod-php4’s syslog(3)<\/code> calls work just fine.
\n(Idea stolen from syslog(3) and chroot(2)<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a little trick to log PHP errors to syslog from an apache chroot. Instead of creating a $CHROOT\/dev\/log socket in the chroot and configuring syslog to listen on that, just define a bogus virtual host that logs to syslog. <VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80> ServerName JustForOpeningSyslog Redirect permanent \/ http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/ ErrorLog syslog <\/VirtualHost> Now apache calls openlog(3)
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