Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Derk <johnderk@infoserve.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root mail message: newsyslog... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061252070.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35C581E0.8B23C31C@infoserve.net>
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, John Derk wrote: > Hi. > > I have been repeatedly getting the following mail from the bsd 2.2.6 > system to myself (as root): > > The re line refers to /usr/bin/newsyslog, while the body says > "newsyslog: can't open /var/run/syslog.pid file to restart a daemon: No > such file or directory > newsyslog: log not compressed because daemon not notified." > > Can anyone tell me what it means? Or do I need to provide more info? Is syslogd running? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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