From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 0:18: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D4E37B40F for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 00:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26169 invoked from network); 12 May 2002 07:26:36 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 May 2002 07:26:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3CDE158D.A10D039A@liwing.de> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 09:11:09 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eqab Almutairi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/log/messages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Eqab Almutairi wrote: > > Hello, > > i was trying to move /var to /usr/var but seems i damge everything and now i > have > > drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 512 May 10 02:28 var > > /var dir is there and not linking anwhere. also my /var/log/messages now > dosnt log anything. 1st: AFAIK this is described in the FreeBSD handbook. 2nd: boot -s mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a #cd / mv var /usr ln -s /usr/var reboot > i change it from syslog.conf to start log inside /usr/var/log but no lock. I strongly recommend reading the handbook! > i want right now only away to fix only the messages and make it log again to > i see whats goes there specialy with my dns. > > anyone? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message