Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 18:31:39 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd failure Message-ID: <32D2EAEB.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> References: <Mutt.19970104113428.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> <Mutt.19970107095008.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote:
>
> 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. ;-)
It's not that way on mine (yet!) Mine was an upgrade from 2.2SNAP to
current so maybe something got lost in the translation so to speak??
RD
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