From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 6 09:07:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26877 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26845 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:07:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zbp7D-0001W8-00; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:52:03 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:52:03 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: larry_nilsen Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cron mail Message-ID: <19981106165203.A5812@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3642ACC2.5A56DCDE@eee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3642ACC2.5A56DCDE@eee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG larry_nilsen wrote: > Hi ive been having trouble having my modem dial out I type term after > pppON circle and the PPP ON circle> does not appear like it is > suppose to it just hangs there. I can't help with that, but ... > newsyslog:cant open /var/run/syslog.pid pid file to restart > a daemon:No such file or Directory. > > newsyslog: log not compressed because daemon not > notified. This is not relevant to your PPP problem. Since newsyslog couldn't find /var/run/syslog.pid, I suspect maybe syslogd has died? Can you check that? -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message