From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 12:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13359 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19976; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Derk cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: root mail message: newsyslog... In-Reply-To: <35C581E0.8B23C31C@infoserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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