From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 28 18:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from coffee.q9media.com (coffee.q9media.com [216.94.229.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2529D37B401; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by coffee.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9T2xbr10808; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:59:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:59:37 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: "David O'Brien" Cc: void , Kris Kennaway , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd and kqueue Message-ID: <20011028215937.G3418@coffee.q9media.com> References: <20011026233957.A9925@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011026200436.A61058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011027043342.A18231@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011027001704.B2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011027002622.C2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011028180643.B59388@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011028180643.B59388@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 06:06:43PM -0800 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien writes: > Actually, I find it weird and counter intuitive that syslogd will not > log to the files in the config file (/etc/syslog.conf) unless they > already exists. It really feels like we are living with a programming > bug 25 years later.... > > If I didn't want syslogd to log something, I would not have it in > syslog.conf. syslog.conf would require fields for user:group and permissions in order for that to work, otherwise syslogd would have no idea how you want your log files created. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message