From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 9:17:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2020114E68 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA05994; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:18:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906091618.MAA05994@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" error In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990609120932.009f2b60@mail.elehost.com> from Paul MacKenzie at "Jun 9, 99 12:11:05 pm" To: pc.mackenzie@utoronto.ca (Paul MacKenzie) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:18:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul MacKenzie wrote, > Any idea why I am getting this error? > > syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" when syslogd starts > > Any help would be much appreciated. I was in the process of doing a test > reinstall of a system to see how fast I could do it and I ran into this > problem. Sending along a copy of your /etc/syslog.conf would probably be a good idea. My guess is that somewhere in syslog.conf you have something along the lines of, telnet.info /var/log/telnet.log But "telnet" is an unknown facility name. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message