From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 21:48:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.actllc.com (mail.actllc.com [207.149.95.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FEA14C24 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from majid@ibroadcast.net) Received: from malmassa (sales1.ibroadcast.net [209.221.145.14] (may be forged)) by mail.actllc.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA11634; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:37:38 -0800 Message-ID: <003f01bf2c08$7e80e440$0e91ddd1@balfourplace.com> From: "Majid Almassari" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <04c001bf2ba3$86128ed0$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> <19991111150529.A718@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Subject: Re: syslog.conf Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:48:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I appreciate your help, it works now. In RedHat 5.2 syslog does create the log file automatically once you specify it in /etc/syslog.conf thats what made me wonder. I got remember that I'm not dealing with RedHat here! Thanx Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. Systems Administrator. iBroadcast, Inc. (206) 223-5540 http://www.ibroadcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Chen To: Majid Almassari Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 6:05 PM Subject: Re: syslog.conf > [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