From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 7 16:33:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA28639 for current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA28630 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:33:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from arabian.astrolab.org (dial236.nconnect.net [206.54.227.236]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08587; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:29:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32D2EAEB.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 18:31:39 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-SMP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd failure References: <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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