From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 15:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13252 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13230 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA23442; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:10:06 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801292110.VAA23442@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Maruca, Fran" cc: "'Brian Somers'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Multiple ppp logs In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:10:33 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:10:06 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > Not having much luck here. Yes I created the entries in the > /etc/syslog.conf file complete with TABs. I create the log files in > /var/log via 'touch' and ensure that the permissions/priv is the same as > the original ppp.log. In /usr/sbin I created 2 links, ppp0 & ppp1 via > 'ln -s ppp /usr/sbin/ppp{#}. After doing this, I reboot the box and > initiate a ppp connection. I watch ppp come up; dial; negotiate PPP and > then I hang it up. The ppp{#}.log is empty. > > I'm not running newsyslogd so I'm assuming that has nothing to do with > this. Please tell me if I'm wrong. At this point I started to play a > bit changing the priv on /usr/sbin/ppp (yes I was grasping at straws). > While I still have no problems dialing the ppp session I've noticed that > at reboot syslogd reports the error - syslogd: unknown priority name "". > > Ok I give! I know I must be doing something very rookie-like....any > help is appreciated. Perhaps you haven't got a linefeed at the end of syslog.conf ? I'm grasping at straws too :-) > Thanks, > Fran -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....