From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 18: 5:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257CA14E70 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: from jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz [10.1.3.1]) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22597; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:05:29 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01313; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:05:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:05:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Majid Almassari Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf Message-ID: <19991111150529.A718@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <04c001bf2ba3$86128ed0$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <04c001bf2ba3$86128ed0$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net>; from majid@ibroadcast.net on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:46:31PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please wrap your email to 76 chars] On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:46:31PM -0000, Majid Almassari wrote: > Hi there, > I'm trying to make the following entry in /etc/syslog.conf file *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /var/log/biglog > for some reason /var/log/biglog does not get created even after restarting syslogd. Any Ideas will be appreciated? You're required to create the file before using it. Use # touch /var/log/biglog # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` and you're away. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message