From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 7 00:54:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA07646 for current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 00:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA07612 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 00:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA09284 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:51:25 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13153 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:51:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA08851; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:50:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:50:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd failure References: <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>; from dkelly@HiWAAY.net on Jan 5, 1997 17:02:28 -0600 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > > No, that's already okay. It's normally done at /etc/rc time. > > fsck or "rm /var/run/log" at /etc/rc time? (Sorry, I can't get to my > -current system right now from here.) The removal of /var/run/log: rm -f /var/run/log echo ' syslogd.'; syslogd Previously it happened here: (cd /var/run && { cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; }) ^ rm -f log; -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)