From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 18:23:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40ADC37B640 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2G2ME4B131690; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:22:14 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3C92A234.3000704@mac.com> References: <3C92A234.3000704@mac.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:22:13 -0500 To: paul beard , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: need help figuring out what I broke Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:39 PM -0800 3/15/02, paul beard wrote: >I have a 4.4-STABLE system that I somehow managed to break >in some subtle way. I boneheaded removed some files in /var/log >(simple fatfingering) and they didn't re-appear (messages, >et al) as I thought they would. check /etc/syslog.conf to see what files it references. iirc, syslog does not create files if they do not already exist, so that's at least some of your missing files. >Worse still, the box just stopped doing its job: it serves >as my router/gateway for my home network and it just stopped >passing packets. I do not know what missing file would cause this. Sorry. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message