From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 2:49:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blend.fc.kiev.ua (blend.fc.kiev.ua [212.26.129.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DBD37B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 02:49:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnut@fc.kiev.ua) Received: from indust.fc.kiev.ua (indust.fc.kiev.ua [192.168.3.32]) by blend.fc.kiev.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA92803 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 12:48:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from gnut@fc.kiev.ua) Received: from gnut.fc.kiev.ua (gnut.fc.kiev.ua [212.26.129.66]) by indust.fc.kiev.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15962 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 12:48:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from gnut@fc.kiev.ua) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:49:57 +0400 From: "Oles' Hnatkevych" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: "Oles' Hnatkevych" Organization: Finance & Credit Banking Corporation X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1913609269.20010523124957@fc.kiev.ua> Disposition-Notification-To: gnut@fc.kiev.ua To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems with syslogd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello freebsd-questions, Given: perv:gnut:~$ gzip -d -c /var/log/messages.0.gz |tail -3 May 22 14:00:00 perv CRON[81775]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) May 22 14:00:00 perv CRON[81776]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) May 22 14:00:00 perv newsyslog[81777]: logfile turned over erv:gnut:~$ cat /var/log/messages; date May 22 14:00:00 perv newsyslog[81777]: logfile turned over Wed May 23 12:41:53 EEST 2001 perv:gnut:~$ .... and that after this turnover I can not login as root (password is accepted, then it says either nothing if password is correct or 'sorry' if password is incorrect, then hangs up until ctrl-c), I conclude that the problem is in kernel/syslogd/newsyslog/some configuration, since the reason is one: syslogd does not want to accept/write messages. logger(1) does not append anything. perv:gnut:~$ uname -a FreeBSD perv.fc.kiev.ua 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #2: Tue May 22 12:57:32 EEST 2001 gnut@perv.fc.kiev.ua:/usr/src/sys/compile/FILIRR i386 perv:gnut:~$ I can not understand what can be wrong. Another problem is that if I start syslogd manualy.. it does not work either......... With best wishes, Oles' Hnatkevych, http://gnut.kiev.ua, gnut@fc.kiev.ua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message