FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

Hi, I've made this optional in the latest CVS.  You will get no log file
by default. Setting the environ variable TDSDUMP will put the log in
/tmp/freetds.log and setting it to something (export
TDSDUMP=${HOME}/myfreetds.log) will write it whereever you specify.

Brian

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tom wrote:

> 
>   It seems that FreeTDS 0.47 logs all activity in /tmp/freetds.log by
> default?  This look like this is hard-coded in login.c
> 
>   This is bad because you can even see the password in /tmp/freetds.log.
> umask() isn't used, so the file gets created with the user's default
> umask, which usually would make /tmp/freetds.log readable by anybody.
> Great for debugging, not so great for production.
> 
> Tom
>