Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:49:18 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 rc file problems Message-ID: <20061120234918.GA49977@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061120225216.GA49353@icarus.home.lan> References: <45622EEC.6030907@sonicboom.org> <20061120225216.GA49353@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:52:16PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:40:44PM -0800, Brian wrote: > > I've started getting emails like this for the last few days after a > > system build. > > > > newsyslog: can't open pid file: /var/run/syslog.pid: No such file or > > directory > > newsyslog: log /var/log/maillog.0 not compressed because daemon(s) not > > notified > > > > In looking at the syslog rc file, I see pidfile="/var/run/syslog.pid" > > even though the file in that folder is now /var/run/syslogd.sockets. > > The second error I am a little less sure about. Googling I saw either > > inadequate syslogd exec privilege, or a potential relation to the first > > problem? > > Seems to me the problem has to do with syslogd not running when > newsyslog attempts to send syslog a signal (hence why newsyslog is > trying to read /var/run/syslog.pid). > > A system with a running syslogd has this in /var/run: > > -rw------- 1 root wheel 3 30 Oct 22:00 syslog.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 36 30 Oct 22:00 syslogd.sockets > > It sounds like syslogd on your box may have died off for some reason > prior to newsyslog running to do log rotation. The author forgot to include the list when he responded to me: >>From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> >>To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> >>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:22:26 -0800 >>Subject: Re: 6.2 rc file problems >> >>ugh, the denyhosts message says syslogd should ideally be run with the >>-c option; so I edited my syslogd flags and somehow massaged -cs to be >>-cS. >> >>Brian -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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